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In FY2025, 25.69% of 1,876 asylum grant-or-denial records at this court were grants (national: 23.13%).

Historical asylum grant share

FY2025 · 2024-10-01–2025-09-30

25.69%

482Grant records
1,394Denial records
1,876Outcome records

Recorded grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials): 482 ÷ (482 + 1,394) = 25.69%.

95% statistical interval: 23.77%–27.72%

United States overall: 23.13% · +2.57 percentage points compared with this parent cohort.

Philadelphia
25.69%N 1,876
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.

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recorded asylum application grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same immigration-court proceeding; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are excluded.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.

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
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Metric M1.1.0
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Release manifest · Full methodology

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.

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 · PHI

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 year4472,6763,12314.31%11,639—
FY20254821,3941,87625.69%9,289−20.63
FY202443550493946.33%8,414−5.01
FY20235575281,08551.34%5,106−4.65
FY202247237184355.99%3,510+17.58
FY202132351884138.41%1,507+8.19
FY202026260586730.22%1,416−6.21
FY20193766561,03236.43%1,832−13.98
FY201824223848050.42%1,837−6.47
FY201719414734156.89%901−12.34
FY20161084815669.23%1,089+14.95
FY2015766414054.29%1,122−6.31
FY20141238020360.59%753−2.61
FY20131468523163.20%861+1.12
FY201216710226962.08%796+4.30
FY201115611427057.78%748+18.94
FY20108713722438.84%738−3.45
FY200910714625342.29%864−6.46
FY200815616432048.75%1,509+8.27
FY200718527245740.48%2,207+16.68
FY200618458977323.80%1,988+8.65
FY200512570082515.15%1,511−7.55
FY200418864082822.71%1,460−7.73
FY200323152875930.43%1,215−5.99
FY200221237058236.43%998+2.38
FY200119237256434.04%941−3.09
FY200019232551737.14%849−2.95
FY199918227245440.09%881−2.54
FY199823731955642.63%1,106+12.65
FY199712829942729.98%754+15.60
FY19964728032714.37%565−11.43
FY19954813818625.81%310—
FY199414607418.92%115—
FY199315203542.86%57—
FY19924212516.00%48—
FY199115142951.72%55—
FY19907233023.33%48—
FY198912253732.43%57—
FY198837488543.53%101—
FY1987487612438.71%176—
FY1986034340.00%37—
FY1985012120.00%13—
FY19830220.00%2—
FY19810110.00%1—
FY19760110.00%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 year2,1511,1511,18410703,923
FY20251,0155101,81076103,317
FY20245172713,0621,54802,077
FY20233292041,9061,0832497
FY20222252231,3957052117
FY20216617334246039
FY202012112823017449
FY2019180158189425910
FY201814511612131,0710
FY201761820623550
FY20164813101026511
FY201543173007660
FY201431205003140
FY201328149004530
FY201220105004002
FY201129107003384
FY201025141003471
FY200956118004352
FY2008111103009687
FY2007107140101,4993
FY2006165254107878
FY200558224204002
FY200450204003753
FY200327106003203
FY20026353002982
FY20015047002782
FY20002660002424
FY19996285002728
FY199875114003556
FY1997020003043
FY199602002342
FY199500001213
FY19940000392
FY19930000184
FY19920000230
FY19910000260
FY19900000180
FY19890000200
FY19880000160
FY19870000511
FY1986000030
FY1985000010
FY1983000000
FY1981000000
FY1976000000

Judge identity coverage

Public judge identity linkage · completion fiscal year
Fiscal yearRecords linked to public judge identitiesUnresolved judge records
FY2026 · Partial year11,6381
FY20259,2872
FY20248,4113
FY20235,1060
FY20223,5091
FY20211,5070
FY20201,4160
FY20191,8293
FY20181,81225
FY201787427
FY20161,07415
FY20151,10418
FY201473419
FY201384714
FY201278313
FY20117399
FY20107326
FY200984816
FY20081,49415
FY20072,2052
FY20061,9880
FY20051,5110
FY20041,4591
FY20031,2141
FY20029980
FY20019347
FY20008454
FY19998810
FY19981,1051
FY19977513
FY19965641
FY19953100
FY19941150
FY1993570
FY1992480
FY1991550
FY1990480
FY1989570
FY19881001
FY19871733
FY1986361
FY1985130
FY198320
FY198110
FY197610

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

834 days25% completed within
1,184 daysMedian
1,802.5 days75% completed within
2,236.5 days90% completed within

N = 1,876 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.

Saved future hearing schedules

58,045 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 Philadelphia 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 months16,97029.2%
4–6 months13,21822.8%
7–12 months15,42826.6%
13 or more months12,42921.4%

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

Philadelphia · All nationalities

FY2025

Lawyer / representative record found

28.53%

G 463 / D 1,160 / N 1,623

No qualifying lawyer / representative record found

7.51%

G 19 / D 234 / N 253

21.0 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.

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%FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY202578.00%73.40%59.00%46.66%26.79%
Latest year
26.79%FY2025 · 20,387 records
Highest year
78.00%FY2021 · 7,456 records
Lowest year
26.79%FY2025 · 20,387 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
Completion recorded by 2026-08-31
FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Recorded share78.00%73.40%59.00%46.66%26.79%
7,456 records19,974 records32,471 records44,905 records20,387 records
Input fiscal year · proceeding records, including administrative and repeated proceedings
CourtEntered FYNCompletion recordedNo completion entry or unresolvedCompleted duration Q25 / median / Q75 / P90 days
Philadelphia20217,4565,816 · 78.00%1,640340 / 672 / 1,147 / 1,540
Philadelphia202219,97414,661 · 73.40%5,313352 / 585 / 1,040 / 1,379
Philadelphia202332,47119,159 · 59.00%13,312300 / 451 / 758 / 1,057
Philadelphia202444,90520,954 · 46.66%23,951342 / 546 / 691 / 788
Philadelphia202520,3875,462 · 26.79%14,92598 / 252 / 403 / 530.9

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

Distribution across published judges · FY2025

8 judge-at-court cohorts with N ≥ 100. Median historical grant share: 29.59%; middle half: 11.90%–32.59%.

Unweighted mean: 24.67%; range: 7.48%–39.19%; standard deviation: 11.84 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
Antonio CapistranoIJFY1996, FY1998–FY1999, FY2001–FY2004, FY2006, FY2008, FY2010–FY2026Available on profile
Ayodele GansalloACIJFY2014, FY2021–FY2026Available on profile
Dawn KulickIJFY2001–FY2002, FY2004, FY2011–FY2026Available on profile
Forrest W., III HooverIJFY1999, FY2001–FY2003, FY2005–FY2026Available on profile
Johanna P. GaymerIJFY2022–FY2023, FY2026Available on profile
John CarleIJ——
Joseph C. ScottIJFY1995, FY1997, FY1999, FY2004–FY2026Available on profile
Keith LipiecIJFY2023–FY2026Available on profile
Lauren T. FarberIJFY1999, FY2001, FY2014, FY2021–FY2026Available on profile
Mary A. FutcherIJFY1997, FY2013, FY2015, FY2021–FY2026Available on profile
Mary C. LeeIJFY1991, FY1995, FY1998, FY2001, FY2005, FY2007, FY2009–FY2011, FY2013–FY2026Available on profile
Melissa FoxIJFY2015, FY2021–FY2026Available on profile
Timothy KellyIJ——
William McdermottIJFY2005, FY2010, FY2019–FY2026Available on profile

Other judges with records at this court (319)

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

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)1,334747 · 56.0%201 · 15.1%0 · 0.0%386 · 28.9%
DHS-filed (I)1151 · 0.9%38 · 33.0%5 · 4.3%71 · 61.7%

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.

Court location and official page

900 Market Street Suite 504 Philadelphia PA 19107

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

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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 coverageFY1976–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.

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

Used on this page: Saved ZIP associations; they do not determine legal venue

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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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Census 2020 state boundaries

Used on this page: Simplified state outlines on the maps

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