Immigration courts in Massachusetts

What the courts here did in FY2025

45,528

Proceedings completed, FY2025

7.7% decided in absentia

24,162

Proceedings pending at 2026-09

45.9%

Asylum grant rate, FY2021–FY2025

against 37.3% across the country over the same five years

53.1% of a year's work was still waiting at the end of FY2025

24,162 proceedings were pending against 45,528 completed in the year — 53.1% where the country as a whole stood at 40.2%. Pending is a snapshot and completions are a year, so this is a ratio between two different kinds of number; it is the one EOIR's own file supports and it is not a waiting time.

Chelmsford granted 51.5% and Chelmsford granted 36.2%

The 3 courts in Massachusetts with enough decisions to rank granted asylum at rates 15.3 points apart over the five years to FY2025. A state figure is the sum of them, and the sum is not what either court did.

Every immigration court in Massachusetts

Every immigration court by asylum grant rate ranks these against the rest of the country, which is the comparison this page does not make: the strip above places them among Massachusetts’s own. By proceedings pending ranks them by backlog.

A court with no rate decided fewer than 100 asylum applications in the window, which is too few for a rate to mean anything; its own page states the count. Judges assigned is a count of people with a live assignment, and a judge assigned to several courts in Massachusetts is one person on each of their rows — which is why 69 is fewer than the column added up.

Massachusetts elsewhere on the Factbook

• Reported crimeCrime and justice

  Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

• Cities by violent crime rateCrime and justice

  What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

• Prison populationCrime and justice

  People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

• Arrests by race, sex and ageCrime and justice

  Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

• Hate crimeCrime and justice

  Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

• Federal obligationsFederal spending

  What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

• Registered nonprofitsNonprofits

  How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

• Payments to doctorsHealth

  What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

• Farm program paymentsFarm subsidies

  What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

• The Massachusetts Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

  Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.