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Pending Cases and Length of Time Cases Pending, as of November 30, 2009 |
| Pending Cases | Days Waited | ||||
| State Immigration Court Located In |
Percent | Number | Rank | Average | Rank |
| Entire US | 100% | 228,421 | 439 | ||
| California | 26% | 59,451 | 1 | 619 | 1 |
| New York | 16% | 36,922 | 2 | 420 | 11 |
| Florida | 8% | 19,021 | 3 | 431 | 9 |
| Texas | 8% | 18,030 | 4 | 218 | 25 |
| Illinois | 4% | 8,696 | 5 | 375 | 12 |
| Massachusetts | 4% | 8,323 | 6 | 612 | 2 |
| Virginia | 3% | 7,428 | 7 | 478 | 5 |
| Arizona | 3% | 7,088 | 8 | 304 | 18 |
| New Jersey | 3% | 6,880 | 9 | 295 | 19 |
| Georgia | 3% | 6,408 | 10 | 359 | 14 |
| Colorado | 2% | 5,622 | 11 | 450 | 7 |
| Maryland | 2% | 5,025 | 12 | 430 | 10 |
| Pennsylvania | 2% | 4,644 | 13 | 450 | 8 |
| Washington | 2% | 3,796 | 14 | 278 | 21 |
| North Carolina | 2% | 3,788 | 15 | 223 | 24 |
| Tennessee | 2% | 3,684 | 16 | 214 | 26 |
| Nebraska | 1% | 3,418 | 17 | 498 | 4 |
| Ohio | 1% | 3,339 | 18 | 264 | 22 |
| Missouri | 1% | 2,767 | 19 | 327 | 15 |
| Michigan | 1% | 2,367 | 20 | 503 | 3 |
| Minnesota | 1% | 2,234 | 21 | 369 | 13 |
| Louisiana | 1% | 1,980 | 22 | 195 | 29 |
| Oregon | 1% | 1,870 | 23 | 290 | 20 |
| Connecticut | 1% | 1,388 | 24 | 231 | 23 |
| Puerto Rico | 1% | 1,283 | 25 | 319 | 16 |
| Nevada | 1% | 1,221 | 26 | 197 | 28 |
| Utah | 0.5% | 1,100 | 27 | 455 | 6 |
| Hawaii | 0.2% | 549 | 28 | 316 | 17 |
| Guam | 0.0% | 99 | 29 | 212 | 27 |
| Pending case counts are classified by the state the Immigration Court is based in. EOIR refers to this as the “base city.” Judges in most Immigration Courts hear cases in a number of different hearing locations. Sometimes these are in different states. For example, the Immigration Court based in Portland, Oregon has hearing locations not only in Oregon, but in Idaho, Montana and Alaska. A hearing location also may be assigned to a base city in an adjacent state because it is closer to that city than to another immigration court in the same state. TRAC’s new tool allows drilling in to a state to examine pending cases and wait times at each hearing location assigned to a particular Immigration Court. For states with only hearing locations, see summary. For a complete list of hearing locations in a different state than its base city court see listing. |
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