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Immigration courts in New York City are among the nation’s most generous in approving asylum claims, but approval rates differ greatly among the three immigration courts and the judges deciding cases, according to a Gothamist review of court data.
At New York City’s main immigration court, at 26 Federal Plz., judges approved 84.4% of asylum cases in the last fiscal year, compared to the 50.3% approval rate nationwide, according to the data. Judges at the Broadway Street immigration court approved 51% of cases, and judges at the Varick Street court approved 40% of claims. The federal fiscal year runs from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sep. 30, 2023.
At the same time, individual approval rates for judges across the three immigration courts ranged from a high of 96.7% to a low of 13.6%, according to the analysis of Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse data.
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