Immigration court

Newark Immigration Court

Newark, NJ, 07102

How current these figures are

Captured October 23, 2026 — 13 days ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

Quick answer

Newark Immigration Court is one of the U.S. immigration courts in this record. The court-wide asylum grant rate in the release is 4.7%. Individual judges at the same court differ substantially, so open a judge below for their own figures. These are historical figures, not a prediction about any case.

FY2026 court average

4.7%

The latest complete fiscal year (Oct 2025 - Sep 2026), not a lifetime figure.

27,668

Decisions on record

79

Judges

Court location

970 Broad Street, Room 1200

Newark, NJ, 07102

Grant-rate trend

Each point is the grant rate across the 12 months ending in that month — a rolling window, not a single month on its own. A point appears only where those 12 months hold at least 25 decisions. A rolling window covers a much shorter span than the lifetime figure above, so the two can differ materially; both are correct measures of different periods.

0%25%50%75%100%Oct 2023May 2024Dec 2024Jul 2025Feb 2026Sep 2026Month each 12-month window ends4.7%54.7% — 12 months ending Oct 2023 (1,179 decisions)54.0% — 12 months ending Nov 2023 (1,182 decisions)54.1% — 12 months ending Dec 2023 (1,157 decisions)56.7% — 12 months ending Jan 2024 (1,193 decisions)60.8% — 12 months ending Feb 2024 (1,245 decisions)52.7% — 12 months ending Mar 2024 (997 decisions)55.3% — 12 months ending Apr 2024 (1,004 decisions)55.2% — 12 months ending May 2024 (987 decisions)53.6% — 12 months ending Jun 2024 (990 decisions)52.2% — 12 months ending Jul 2024 (994 decisions)53.0% — 12 months ending Aug 2024 (1,000 decisions)52.8% — 12 months ending Sep 2024 (995 decisions)50.8% — 12 months ending Oct 2024 (991 decisions)50.6% — 12 months ending Nov 2024 (1,042 decisions)52.3% — 12 months ending Dec 2024 (1,073 decisions)51.7% — 12 months ending Jan 2025 (1,214 decisions)45.4% — 12 months ending Feb 2025 (1,250 decisions)42.0% — 12 months ending Mar 2025 (1,375 decisions)36.5% — 12 months ending Apr 2025 (1,535 decisions)33.5% — 12 months ending May 2025 (1,642 decisions)32.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2025 (1,700 decisions)31.3% — 12 months ending Jul 2025 (1,683 decisions)30.3% — 12 months ending Aug 2025 (1,628 decisions)29.8% — 12 months ending Sep 2025 (1,619 decisions)30.0% — 12 months ending Oct 2025 (1,599 decisions)28.0% — 12 months ending Nov 2025 (1,558 decisions)24.5% — 12 months ending Dec 2025 (1,583 decisions)15.9% — 12 months ending Jan 2026 (1,481 decisions)12.4% — 12 months ending Feb 2026 (1,528 decisions)13.7% — 12 months ending Mar 2026 (1,729 decisions)7.9% — 12 months ending Apr 2026 (1,725 decisions)9.4% — 12 months ending May 2026 (1,934 decisions)9.1% — 12 months ending Jun 2026 (2,726 decisions)7.6% — 12 months ending Jul 2026 (3,319 decisions)5.7% — 12 months ending Aug 2026 (4,702 decisions)4.7% — 12 months ending Sep 2026 (6,001 decisions)

5 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.

Judges on record at this court

Judges at this court, with lifetime grant rate and decisions on record
JudgeDecisions
Riefkohl, Alberto J.3,140
Garcy, Annie S.2,356
Chen, Shana W.2,298
Dogin, Henry S.2,020
Rastegar, Ramin1,523
Pugliese, Eugene1,293
Neal, Michael M.1,180
Ryan, Dennis1,135
Mullican, Leila Mcneill.1,078
Finston, Leo A.1,028
Cheng, David1,000
Leeds, Frederic G.776
Wilson, Tamar H.772
Ranasinghe, Arya S.688
Reichenberg, Margaret R.644
Rubin, Shifra618
Moore, Carol579
Pierro, Laura N.575
Meisner, Daniel A.560
Strasser, William438
Jeannopoulos, Amanda396
Lechtrecker, Kerri383
Khan, Amiena A.319
Akalski, Maria I.298
Cabrera, Esmeralda278
Lane, Nicole275
Nazaire, Karen257
Kim, Nicole240
Hinds Roach, Denise A.239
Chugh, Amit208
Manuel, Elise182
Roy, Susan G.167
Johnson-Papillo, Carrie C.94
Counihan, Brian66
Straus, Michael W.57
Picione, Anthony46
Harris, Rodger C.45
Harbeck, Dorothy A.44
Kaplan, Elliot M.38
Verrillo, Philip34
Bates, Donna28
Tadal, Mirlande28
Ling, Lisa W.20
Burnham, Shayne R.18
Mannion, Steve18
Saltzman, Eva S.18
McCary, Peter T.14
Reid, Dara12
Klahr, Deborah E.11
Drucker, Richard10
Copeland, Cary H.8
Gagnon, Paul M.8
Ouslander, Charles8
Page, Alan L.7
Costanzo, Lawrence Di6
Ehlers, Patrick J.6
Armstrong, Adrian N.4
Bartleson, Thomas4
Combs, Corey4
Bailey, Richard3
Koppenhofer, Andrea3
Lundberg, Robert K.3
Miller, Joe D.3
Pieters, Edwin3
Ayala, David2
Crosland, David W.2
D'Andrea, Holly A.2
Hladylowycz, Roxanne C.2
Beschta, Susan M1
Burns, John1
Day, Steven F.1
Dicamillo, Angelo J.1
Frankenfield, Jason1
Gerry, Niles1
Mulhern, Daniel1
Panopoulos, Adam1
Pelletier, J. Dan1
Ubarri, Maria1
ul-Haq, Ubaid1

Source and method

These figures come from case data released by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act, published by the Deportation Data Project. Imigrar did not produce or estimate them.

Captured on October 23, 2026, 13 days ago. The record covers decisions from November 1997 through September 2026; nothing filed or decided after September 2026 appears here.

Grant rates are historical aggregates. They describe decisions already made. They do not predict the outcome of any individual case, and no figure on this page should be read as a forecast of what will happen in yours.

This page is informational only and is not legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Only the official EOIR record is authoritative.

Open the source data — Deportation Data Project

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