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Asylum Clock by Immigration Court

The asylum clock counts the days a pending asylum application has been accruing toward work-authorization eligibility. At 150 days an applicant may file for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD); at 180 days the case is generally considered decision-ready. The table below shows, for each immigration court, how many pending asylum cases have reached each milestone - aggregated from FOIA-released EOIR records.

Live data is being prepared. The asylum-clock distribution updates monthly from the public EOIR FOIA dataset (Deportation Data Project). The first dataset ingest for this view is pending - check back soon. Nothing on this page is an estimate or placeholder; figures appear only once the verified dataset is loaded.

Methodology & sources

Primary source
Deportation Data Project (UC Berkeley) - FOIA-released EOIR case-level data.
Secondary source
TRAC Immigration (Syracuse University) - independent corroboration of grant-rate aggregates.
Last data refresh
1970-01-01

Statistical data only. Case outcomes depend on case-specific merits, evidence, and counsel quality. This page is provided for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice or a guarantee of any outcome.