Immigration courts in Nebraska

EOIR runs 1 immigration court in Nebraska, with 37 judges assigned to it today. They completed 10,388 proceedings in FY2025 and had 5,060 still waiting.

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What the courts here did in FY2025

10,388
Proceedings completed, FY2025: 17.7% decided in absentia; 5,060
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 5.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–FY2025: against 37.3% across the country over the same five years

Immigration courts in Nebraska granted asylum in 2.2% of decisions in FY2025, against 23.2% across the country

Asylum applications granted as a share of those granted or denied, at the immigration courts sitting in Nebraska, by federal fiscal year, against every immigration court in the country over the same years. Year by year, where the figures above this chart are over the five years to FY2025 — so the last point here is FY2025 alone. Courts sitting in Nebraska, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.

A rate is applications granted over applications granted plus denied. Those abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed or otherwise not adjudicated are in neither side of it, and across EOIR’s release they outnumber the decisions.

FY2016 has no point: the courts here decided fewer than 100 asylum applications that year, which is too few for a rate. A gap, not a zero.

None of this measures how a court decides. Representation and the detained share of a docket move a grant rate more than the court does, and this site has loaded neither.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes

The figures behind this chart

Immigration courts in Nebraska granted asylum in 2.2% of decisions in FY2025, against 23.2% across the country. Asylum applications granted as a share of those granted or denied, at the immigration courts sitting in Nebraska, by federal fiscal year, against every immigration court in the country over the same years. Year by year, where the figures above this chart are over the five years to FY2025 — so the last point here is FY2025 alone. Courts sitting in Nebraska, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.
Fiscal year	Nebraska	United States
FY2025	2.2%	23.2%
FY2024	17.6%	43.6%
FY2023	5.4%	47.3%
FY2022	4.4%	46.2%
FY2021	2.6%	37.1%
FY2020	4.4%	28.0%
FY2019	11.2%	30.2%
FY2018	9.4%	33.7%
FY2017	18.4%	38.3%
FY2016	not reported	43.5%
FY2015	25.6%	48.6%
FY2014	15.3%	49.0%
FY2013	16.9%	52.8%
FY2012	16.0%	55.5%
FY2011	17.9%	52.1%
FY2010	20.8%	50.7%
FY2009	11.9%	47.5%
FY2008	20.2%	45.2%
FY2007	28.5%	46.3%
FY2006	22.8%	44.7%

48.7% of a year's work was still waiting at the end of FY2025

5,060 proceedings were pending against 10,388 completed in the year — 48.7% 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.

The court

Every figure above is Omaha, EOIR code OMA, with 37 judges assigned today. Its own page carries the ten-year table behind these numbers and the judges by name.

Nebraska elsewhere on the Factbook

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The Nebraska 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.

Sources

EOIR immigration judges and courts — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · retrieved September 21, 2026
EOIR immigration court outcomes by court and fiscal year · retrieved September 22, 2026

Data retrieved September 22, 2026