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Currently, the Omaha immigration court that processes Nebraska and Iowa applications has the longest average wait in the nation, about 5.5 years, for asylum hearings, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, a nonpartisan, nonprofit center at Syracuse University that collects immigration data.
The Omaha court’s judges also have one of the highest asylum denial rates in the country. In fiscal years 2018 to 2023, TRAC shows that judges at the Omaha-based court denied asylum in 90% of cases, compared to the national average of 61%.
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