Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court — Asylum Decision Statistics

Over the trailing 12 months, the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court granted asylum in 2.3% of decided cases. The fiscal year 2024 (Oct 2023 – Sep 2024) court-wide average was 10.5%. The two numbers may differ because policy and caseload shifts can move rates significantly year-over-year.

Based on the most recent FOIA-released EOIR data, 12 immigration judges are listed as actively sitting at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court with asylum case volume in the last 24 months. The full judge roster, each with their individual grant rate, appears below.

The Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court has issued 29,566 recorded asylum decisions across the full FOIA-released dataset. This includes both grants and denials but excludes administrative outcomes (cases dismissed, terminated, or closed without a merits ruling).

Grant rate = (cases with case_outcome of "Relief Granted") divided by (cases with case_outcome of "Relief Granted" or "Remove"). Cases closed administratively — dismissed, terminated, voluntary departure — are excluded from the denominator. This is the standard methodology used by TRAC Immigration (Syracuse) and the Deportation Data Project (UC Berkeley).