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Immigration courts in New York

EOIR runs 8 immigration courts in New York, with 342 judges assigned to them today. They completed 124,819 proceedings in FY2025 and had 43,839 still waiting.

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What the courts here did in FY2025

124,819
Proceedings completed, FY2025
26.7% decided in absentia
43,839
Proceedings pending at 2026-09
53.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–FY2025
against 37.3% across the country over the same five years

Asylum grant rate at the courts in New York, by fiscal year

Immigration courts in New York granted asylum in 35.1% 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 New York, 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 New York, 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 Those abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed or otherwise not adjudicated are in neither side of it, and across EOIR’s release they outnumber the decisions.

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 New York granted asylum in 35.1% 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 New York, 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 New York, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.
Fiscal yearNew YorkUnited States
FY202535.1%23.2%
FY202457.5%43.6%
FY202360.8%47.3%
FY202261.5%46.2%
FY202164.3%37.1%
FY202047.2%28.0%
FY201953.9%30.2%
FY201864.0%33.7%
FY201775.9%38.3%
FY201682.6%43.5%
FY201581.5%48.6%
FY201481.8%49.0%
FY201381.4%52.8%
FY201280.5%55.5%
FY201175.8%52.1%
FY201074.4%50.7%
FY200971.0%47.5%
FY200869.5%45.2%
FY200774.8%46.3%
FY200669.4%44.7%

New York granted 73.3% and Buffalo granted 33.1%

The 4 courts in New York with enough decisions to rank granted asylum at rates 40.2 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 New York

1 more column on a wider screen

Immigration courts sitting in New York, with what EOIR records for each
CourtJudges assigned nowAsylum grant rate
Batavia36not reported
Buffalo6433.1%
Fishkill67not reported
Napanoch76not reported
New York NYC18873.3%
New York NYD84not reported
New York NYV10041.5%
New York NYB8138.1%

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 New York’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 New York is one person on each of their rows — which is why 342 is fewer than the column added up.

New York elsewhere on the Factbook

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  • 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 New York 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.

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