CHELMSFORD — IMMIGRATION COURT

CHELMSFORD MA

52%

Asylum grant rate

of 909 decisions · FY2022–FY2025

95% interval: 48% — 55%

granted:: 469
denied:: 440

How this percentage is calculated

Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. The unit of count is a decision per proceeding, not per application: applicants almost always file asylum, withholding and CAT protection together. Withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

How this compares

CHELMSFORD — IMMIGRATION COURT52% (909)
All U.S. courts33% (1,350,724)

This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.

Trend by fiscal year

U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (1): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

Show as a table

Grant rate by fiscal year
Period	decisions	granted	95% interval
FY2025	161	48%	41% — 56%
FY2024	746	52%	49% — 56%
FY2023	2	100%	34% — 100%

How long a case takes

From service of the NTA to the decision on the application, across all judges of this court.

49 mo

median

half of cases: 31—69 mo

based on 909 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2025	161	59 mo	35—70
FY2024	746	47 mo	30—69

Duration runs from the NTA date (charging document served) to the decision on the application. Median, not mean: the distribution has a long right tail. Cases decided this year may have begun a decade ago, so duration by year of decision is not a forecast for a case filed today.

The queue

Cases at this court with no decision yet.

11
cases waiting: 32 mo
already waited, median

Half have waited between 23 mo and 42 mo.
5 (45%) have a hearing scheduled later than the date this data was collected. The rest have no upcoming event in the release.

The queue counts proceedings with no decision in the release. The figure runs from the NTA date to the release cutoff — it is how long people have already waited, not how much longer they will. Shown separately: how many have a hearing scheduled after the cutoff. The rest have no upcoming event in the release and should not be read alongside live cases.

Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not provide legal advice. The data lags by roughly a month; for current case status use ACIS and Respondent Access. The source is known to have missing records, including relief applications — absent data does not mean it is absent from your case.