See how long completed proceedings took and how court workload changed over time.
Through 2026-06-30. Pending is a stock at that date; receipts and completions are cumulative from 2025-10-01 through 2026-06-30.
FY2026 is incomplete. Its nine months of activity should not be compared as a full year with FY2025. This national stock cannot be allocated to individual courts or used to predict a personal hearing date.
EOIR official workload table · Generated 2026-07-24
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Pending at year end
New cases / initial receipts
Total completions
| FY | Pending stock | New cases / initial receipts | Total completions | Completions / initial receipts | Backlog change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,694,255 | 244,264 | 115,965 | 47.48% | +142,259 |
| 2022 | 2,105,316 | 707,529 | 314,831 | 44.50% | +411,061 |
| 2023 | 2,811,599 | 1,206,102 | 526,812 | 43.68% | +706,283 |
| 2024 | 3,924,993 | 1,783,905 | 705,249 | 39.53% | +1,113,394 |
| 2025 | 3,722,776 | 562,375 | 798,808 | 142.04% | −202,217 |
Completions include initial and subsequent completions; receipts count new cases. Their ratio describes workload and does not predict a hearing date or necessarily equal the change in pending cases.
Appeals to the Board are counted as their own official series, on their own population.
Compare court historical decision volumes and completed-proceeding durations
Court profiles show published asylum decision records. Verified court backlog and monthly trends need comparable, dated court inventories; the national stock above cannot be allocated to courts.
This page groups records by the year they entered the database. That is different from the decision year selected on an outcome page. It shows all entry years; your earlier selections are kept in the return link.
Find a court’s completed-proceeding duration
Of proceeding records entered in each fiscal year, how many have a completion date recorded by 2026-08-31?
| Entry fiscal year | Completion recorded | No completion entry | Unresolved date/state | N | Median completed duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 300,995 | 15.71% 56,098 | 43 | 357,136 | 525 days |
| FY2022 | 677,626 | 24.09% 215,186 | 511 | 893,323 | 462 days |
| FY2023 | 922,170 | 36.41% 528,246 | 378 | 1,450,794 | 407 days |
| FY2024 | 1,155,708 | 46.19% 992,443 | 553 | 2,148,704 | 365 days |
| FY2025 | 510,344 | 51.29% 537,818 | 454 | 1,048,616 | 117 days |
A recorded proceeding completion may be a transfer or another administrative event; it does not mean the person’s immigration case is finally resolved. “No completion entry” is a snapshot description, not a verified pending-case count.
| Entry FY | 25% | Median | 75% | 90% | Completed N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 105 | 525 | 976 | 1,379 | 300,995 |
| FY2022 | 148 | 462 | 863 | 1,223 | 677,626 |
| FY2023 | 146 | 407 | 748 | 1,030 | 922,170 |
| FY2024 | 145 | 365 | 605 | 792 | 1,155,708 |
| FY2025 | 30 | 117 | 316 | 487 | 510,344 |
Court profiles summarize eligible asylum grant-or-denial proceedings completed in FY2025. This table starts with records entered during each earlier year and describes their state at the snapshot. People can have multiple proceedings, and newer entry cohorts have had less time to accumulate completions.
Neither summary forecasts the remaining time for an unfinished case.
Proceedings grouped by the court stored in the 2026-08 snapshot. This does not reconstruct the original court at entry after transfers.
Choose a court to read every observed entry-year group on that court's profile. National entry-year totals remain in the tables above.
Pending cases and initial receipts cover removal, deportation, exclusion, asylum-only and withholding-only cases. Total completions include both initial and subsequent completions. The clearance ratio is total completions divided by initial receipts. Backlog change is the difference between consecutive fiscal-year-end pending stocks.
The numerator and denominator of clearance have different event scopes; the ratio need not explain backlog change. A national workload trend does not predict a particular hearing date. A current raw record with missing completion fields is not automatically a verified pending case or a historical court inventory.
Complete FY2021–FY2025 plus partial FY2026 through Q3, ending 2026-06-30. Complete-year comparisons use FY2021–FY2025 only; FY2026 is excluded. The underlying EOIR source also contains earlier fiscal years; its official coverage is listed separately in Data and sources. Values and the source hash are pinned in the release.
National workload and entry-cohort series: JSONMarkdown
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