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In FY2025, 6.60% of 2,969 asylum grant-or-denial records at this court were grants (national: 23.13%).

Historical asylum grant share

FY2025 · 2024-10-01–2025-09-30

6.60%

196Grant records
2,773Denial records
2,969Outcome records

Recorded grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials): 196 ÷ (196 + 2,773) = 6.60%.

95% statistical interval: 5.76%–7.55%

United States overall: 23.13% · −16.52 percentage points compared with this parent cohort.

Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court
6.60%N 2,969
United States overall
23.13%N 124,581

Among immigration courts

70 immigration courts have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2025. Their recorded grant shares range from 1.52% to 72.66%; the median is 17.47%. The larger dot is this court.

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Among recorded asylum application grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same immigration-court proceeding; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are excluded. One case may contribute more than one proceeding.

This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.

Use historical results to understand past cases, not to forecast an individual outcome.

Full definition and counting rulesWhat else is recorded besides a grant or denial?See related court, judge and nationality records

Source files and checks

Removal, deportation, exclusion and asylum-only proceedings. ASYL grant codes G/I/P; denial D. Other outcomes are excluded from this denominator. Conflicting applications and inconsistent case links are excluded.

Judge attribution uses the proceeding’s IJ_CODE assignment. It does not establish who personally authored every decision. Court attribution uses the proceeding’s recorded court, which may differ from historical hearing venue.

This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.

The source has known malformed lines: 357 physical lines were rejected; accepted logical rows are 262 below EOIR’s count file. Statistics describe accepted records. The official asylum report uses a different unit and will not exactly match these totals.

Source
EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08
Metric version
Metric M1.1.0
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2026-09-14
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Release manifest · Full methodology

How did the historical grant share change?

0%10%20%30%40%50%FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY202522.26%16.46%18.34%14.41%6.60%37.13%46.12%47.28%43.52%23.13%
Latest year
6.60%FY2025 · 2,969 records
Highest year
22.26%FY2021 · 274 records
Lowest year
6.60%FY2025 · 2,969 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
  • Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court
  • United States overall

Methodology

How much did the published annual shares vary?

FY2021, FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, FY2025 · each year N ≥ 100

Standard deviation: 5.20 percentage points. Median absolute deviation: 2.05 percentage points. Largest change between adjacent published years: 7.80 percentage points.

These summarize the displayed annual rates; they do not measure judge quality or explain why outcomes changed. Annual variation method

EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08Population history · eoir-2026-08-population-history-v1Provenance

Why published asylum statistics can differ

Published asylum statistics can use different record units, outcome fields and reporting periods. This site counts eligible grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same proceeding; a case can contribute more than one proceeding.

See counting rules and reconciliation examples

Full annual history

This series counts eligible proceedings directly from the normalized source, including records without a resolved public judge identity. Stored completion dates do not prove decision authorship or judge appointment dates.

Historical record court · HOU

Grant and denial results by fiscal year

Every fiscal year in the source, newest first. FY2021–FY2025 are the complete years used for comparisons; the change column compares complete years with at least 100 results each.

Completion fiscal year · grant and denial results
Fiscal yearGrantedDeniedGrant or denial results (N)Grant share (G / N)All eligible recordsChange from prior FY (percentage points)
FY2026 · Partial year723,1373,2092.24%8,195—
FY20251962,7732,9696.60%7,193−7.80
FY202412071383314.41%7,444−3.94
FY20232881,2821,57018.34%8,827+1.89
FY20222751,3961,67116.46%5,375−5.81
FY20216121327422.26%1,138+15.60
FY20202473,4613,7086.66%5,324+1.71
FY20192194,2034,4224.95%6,943−3.88
FY20182762,8503,1268.83%5,808−2.89
FY20172351,7702,00511.72%3,693+2.04
FY20161731,6141,7879.68%2,462−0.73
FY20153832736510.41%746—
FY201423376038.33%223—
FY20135412217630.68%387+5.40
FY20126719826525.28%411−5.63
FY20116414320730.92%332+0.08
FY20106614821430.84%407+0.91
FY20098820629429.93%479+16.26
FY20083824027813.67%570+0.67
FY20076845552313.00%1,159−5.11
FY20067333040318.11%996−2.65
FY20057629036620.77%694−2.11
FY20048629037622.87%730−4.66
FY200313335048327.54%863+3.43
FY20027423330724.10%613−7.41
FY200110422633031.52%690+8.98
FY20008729938622.54%856+0.97
FY19998530939421.57%924+3.21
FY19989040049018.37%1,184+0.12
FY199710245755918.25%1,188−8.44
FY199614640154726.69%1,089+6.24
FY19956424931320.45%615+11.64
FY1994202072278.81%501−18.02
FY19934412016426.83%395+19.93
FY1992162162326.90%713−21.75
FY19915313218528.65%1,270+12.37
FY19903518021516.28%653−16.69
FY19896112418532.97%423+7.53
FY19884312616925.44%478—
FY198711718213.41%373—
FY198616714.29%35—
FY198523540.00%10—
FY19820110.00%1—

Other saved application results

These categories are part of all eligible records above; they are outside grant plus denial (N).

Other result categories · completion fiscal year
Fiscal yearRecorded as abandonedRecorded as withdrawnRecorded as not adjudicatedRecorded as administratively closedOther recorded categoriesNo application result recorded
FY2026 · Partial year3,141387598371822
FY20251,0762772,0211140736
FY20246672675,186531437
FY20239741,0094,8611752236
FY20223663052,6892411102
FY2021765260730495
FY2020778184517258104
FY20199473343671084221
FY2018825198251021,5320
FY2017387671301,2030
FY2016232541123760
FY20153524023200
FY20142427001120
FY20133137001430
FY201285000880
FY201183421746
FY2010197741866
FY200998110904
FY200824141101179
FY200730248013552
FY2006641700034910
FY200535108001814
FY200415155001786
FY200310150002173
FY200210113001812
FY200110168001820
FY200037182002474
FY1999111204102104
FY1998130132004284
FY1997150005762
FY1996125105132
FY1995100029011
FY1994011025814
FY199300002238
FY199220004727
FY199122201,00475
FY1990000039741
FY1989000022315
FY1988000029316
FY198700002847
FY19861100251
FY1985100040
FY1982000000

Judge identity coverage

Public judge identity linkage · completion fiscal year
Fiscal yearRecords linked to public judge identitiesUnresolved judge records
FY2026 · Partial year8,1950
FY20257,1930
FY20247,4440
FY20238,8270
FY20225,3750
FY20211,1371
FY20205,3213
FY20196,93310
FY20185,611197
FY20173,59697
FY20162,44814
FY201572620
FY20142176
FY20133861
FY20124047
FY20113266
FY20104052
FY200946910
FY20085637
FY20071,1581
FY20069933
FY20056931
FY20047264
FY20038549
FY20026112
FY20016891
FY20008542
FY19999213
FY19981,1777
FY19971,1871
FY19961,0881
FY19956132
FY19945010
FY19933941
FY19927103
FY19911,2619
FY19906521
FY19894203
FY198846810
FY198736013
FY1986305
FY198582
FY198201

Public FY2021–FY2025 grant and denial counts reconcile with the existing M1 tables. Missing years have no eligible dated rows, not verified zero activity.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-population-history-v1 · Original EOIR data export · Sources and data version

Historical completed-proceeding duration

FY2025 · proceeding input to completion · EOIR 2026-08

653 days25% completed within
954 daysMedian
1,654 days75% completed within
2,578 days90% completed within

N = 2,969 valid records · 0 records excluded for missing or invalid dates.

This is the historical INPUT_DATE-to-COMP_DATE interval for eligible proceeding records, not the total elapsed time of an entire immigration case or a prediction for an unfinished case.

Explore duration and entry cohorts · How this is calculated

Saved future hearing schedules

9,582 master and individual schedule records passed the future-observation checks in the EOIR snapshot dated 2026-08-31. They are stored under the court code for Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court.

Middle saved schedule month: 2027-02. Half of these saved future observations fall in that month or earlier.

Saved future schedule observations by calendar months after the snapshot cutoff
Distance from snapshotRecordsShare
1–3 months2,93430.6%
4–6 months1,96920.5%
7–12 months4,06642.4%
13 or more months6136.4%

A saved future schedule is not a verified hearing and can change. This is the distance from the snapshot date to a scheduled month, not how long a case has waited or how long remains for a person. The records have no published judge-level breakdown.

Explore this court’s saved hearing schedules · Schedule lead method

Source: EOIR saved hearing schedules, 2026-08-31 snapshotSources and snapshot dates

Lawyer-record comparison

Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court · All nationalities

FY2025

Lawyer / representative record found

7.03%

G 168 / D 2,221 / N 2,389

No qualifying lawyer / representative record found

4.83%

G 28 / D 552 / N 580

2.2 percentage points between the two groups · FY2025

A filing was found in the data. It does not confirm help at the decision. No matching filing does not prove there was no legal help. These numbers do not show what caused the difference.

Explore the full lawyer-record comparison

Proceedings entered in earlier years

Proceedings grouped by the court stored in the 2026-08 snapshot. This does not reconstruct the original court at entry after transfers.

Completion recorded by 2026-08-31

0%25%50%75%100%FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY202597.47%96.66%93.57%89.73%70.68%
Latest year
70.68%FY2025 · 7,603 records
Highest year
97.47%FY2021 · 5,169 records
Lowest year
70.68%FY2025 · 7,603 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
Completion recorded by 2026-08-31
FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Recorded share97.47%96.66%93.57%89.73%70.68%
5,169 records9,325 records14,842 records21,026 records7,603 records
Input fiscal year · proceeding records, including administrative and repeated proceedings
CourtEntered FYNCompletion recordedNo completion entry or unresolvedCompleted duration Q25 / median / Q75 / P90 days
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court20215,1695,038 · 97.47%131407 / 663 / 904 / 1,245
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court20229,3259,014 · 96.66%311185 / 365 / 721 / 1,061.4
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court202314,84213,887 · 93.57%955135 / 225 / 475 / 876
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court202421,02618,866 · 89.73%2,160115 / 191.5 / 406 / 767
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court20257,6035,374 · 70.68%2,22943 / 100 / 249 / 488

Completion can be a transfer or an administrative event. Missing and inconsistent completion states are combined as a descriptive category; this is not a verified pending count. Newer cohorts have shorter observation time.

Judge listings and historical records

The checked official listing and the historical records stored under this court are separate facts, shown side by side. A listing does not move old records, and old records do not show a current assignment.

Directory checked: EOIR hearing directory

Filter by judge or nationality

Distribution across published judges · FY2025

11 judge-at-court cohorts with N ≥ 100. Median historical grant share: 4.56%; middle half: 2.31%–9.00%.

Unweighted mean: 6.40%; range: 0.43%–17.90%; standard deviation: 5.49 percentage points.

Each judge code counts equally here; the court overall statistic pools eligible outcome records. Judge-code groups with fewer than 100 grant or denial records at this court in FY2025 are not included. Court distribution method

Judge groups use the code saved on each EOIR proceeding. It identifies the assigned judge, not a verified author of every outcome. How judge figures work

Judges on the checked official listing
JudgeOfficial directory listingHistorical records at this courtPublished outcome statistics
Anwer A. KhanIJFY1989–FY1992, FY1994–FY2001, FY2004–FY2008, FY2010, FY2015, FY2017–FY2026Available on profile
Bao Q. NguyenIJFY1990–FY1992, FY1994–FY2000, FY2002, FY2005–FY2008, FY2015–FY2026Available on profile
Daniel P. KinnicuttACIJ——
Demetrius CheeksIJFY2026Available on profile
Gary E. EndelmanIJFY1989, FY1991–FY2001, FY2003, FY2006–FY2007, FY2011, FY2013, FY2015–FY2026Available on profile
Kevin N. BurasIJ——
Kiera ParikhIJFY1995, FY2015, FY2018, FY2021–FY2023, FY2026Available on profile
Lynn WangIJFY1991–FY1992, FY1994, FY1996–FY1999, FY2005–FY2009, FY2015–FY2026Available on profile
Maritza S. RamosIJFY1986, FY1991, FY1994, FY1996–FY1997, FY1999–FY2003, FY2005–FY2007, FY2009–FY2010, FY2013–FY2014, FY2016, FY2022–FY2026Available on profile
Nicholas B. LucicIJFY2026Available on profile
Nimmo BhagatIJFY1986–FY1987, FY1990, FY1992, FY1994–FY2002, FY2005–FY2008, FY2010–FY2012, FY2014–FY2026Available on profile
Paul MarianIJ——
Revathi MuneerIJFY2014, FY2025–FY2026Available on profile
Sam, IV BrownIJFY1991, FY1994, FY1996–FY2000, FY2003–FY2006, FY2008, FY2010, FY2013, FY2015–FY2016, FY2018–FY2026Available on profile
Saul E. GreensteinIJFY1989, FY1991–FY1994, FY1996–FY1999, FY2003–FY2008, FY2014–FY2016, FY2018–FY2026Available on profile
Scott V. GreenbaumIJFY2000, FY2022–FY2023, FY2026Available on profile

Other judges with records at this court (312)

Not on the checked official listing. Each name opens the judge’s historical rows for this court; years describe the saved record coverage.

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A dash under published statistics means no grant or denial is saved for that judge at this court; other saved results can still be listed. The name opens the judge profile and its full historical context.

Recorded BIA appeals associated with this court

These are recorded BIA appeal events linked to proceedings stored under this EOIR court code. They do not measure court quality or predict an individual appeal.

Decision FY2021–FY2025 pooled · IJ Case Appeals · source cutoff 2026-08-31

BIA patterns can change over time. These figures describe recorded dispositions during the displayed historical period, not a permanent characteristic of a person, court or nationality. Changes may coincide with law, policy, administration, BIA composition, case mix or backlog; these data alone do not establish why.

Recorded BIA dispositions associated with this stored court code
Filed byAppeal events (denominator)DIS · recorded dismissal/affirmanceREM · remand as recordedSUS · appeal sustained as recordedOther · mixed recorded dispositions
Respondent-filed (A)6,0463,942 · 65.2%558 · 9.2%2 · <0.1%1,544 · 25.5%
DHS-filed (I)701 · 1.4%26 · 37.1%4 · 5.7%39 · 55.7%

Small sample: N is below 100. Counts remain visible; a few events can change the pattern substantially.

Each row uses its own filing-party denominator. “Other” combines different recorded categories; REM is not an asylum grant, and SUS depends on who filed.

About these records

All recorded filing parties · National parent appeal events: 119,252 · Linked to a stored court code: 119,223 · Not court-attributed: 29.

Court field: B_TblProceeding.BASE_CITY_CODE · Period: decision FY2021–FY2025 · Snapshot: 2026-08 EOIR Case Data · Source cutoff: 2026-08-31.

The stored court code does not establish which court issued the original decision. Chronology conflicts and unresolved links remain in the national residual; they are not assigned to a court.

Download certified court BIA aggregates · Companion manifest · Read disclosure certificate · Historical court BIA edition · Methods

Court location and official page

500 Jefferson Street Suite 300 Houston TX 77002

Official address matched; checked 2026-09-14 · Operating status: Open

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By judge or nationalityCourt selected · choose a group and periodCompare courtsThis court preselected · same-period comparisonHearing schedulesThis court · scheduled records in the source snapshotMotion recordsThis court · monthly counts, not approval ratesBIA appeal outcomesNational context · no court filterBond recordsChoose the court on the bond pageData package changesVerified package comparison · source and scope explained

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Data and sources

Coverage and source versions are listed separately from publication, acquisition and later checks. A check does not extend the records beyond their cutoff.

EOIR public CASE data

Used on this page: Historical court outcomes and related record measures

Historical result coverageFY1982–FY2026 · Partial year: FY2026

Source edition2026-08

Source snapshot cutoff

The first and last available fiscal years bound this range; intervening years may have no records.

Official FOIA libraryOriginal CASE ZIP · about 4.55 GBEOIR code keyEdition details and fingerprint

Standard comparison periodFY2021–FY2025

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Official court directory

Used on this page: Court contacts in the saved court directory

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Official ZIP-to-court assignments

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Census 2020 ZCTA boundaries

Used on this page: ZIP reference areas; geographic approximations, not court jurisdiction

Source edition2020

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