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Philadelphia Immigration Court

Contact and location

Physical address: Robert Nix Federal Bldg and Courthouse, 900 Market St, Ste 504, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: (215) 656-7000
Email: Philadelphia.Immigration.Court@usdoj.gov
Asylum EAD clock: Asylum.Clock.Philadelphia@usdoj.gov
Public hours: Public Hours: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Filing hours: Window Filing Hours: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Case information: (800) 898-7180
Court administrator: Alterra Alicea
Court status: OPEN
Public hours: * Public Hours: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.; * Window Filing Hours: 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.; The immigration court is open Monday to Friday except for federal holidays. The Office of Personnel Management publishes a list of the observed dates of every federal holiday by year online at this link: . Additionally, the court may have to unexpectedly close due to inclement weather or for another emergency or reason.; When necessary, information on immigration court closures or changes to the immigration court’s operating hours is available on EOIR's , , and .

Historical EOIR data

Outcomes at a glance

Year Nationality

Total outcomes: 118,222
Relief granted: 15,325 13.0%
Denied / removal ordered: 62,308 52.7%
Other / procedural: 40,589 34.3%

National comparison for this selection: 9,249,024 outcomes; 10.0% relief granted; 52.0% denied / removal ordered; 38.0% other / procedural.

Methodology and sources

These are proceeding outcomes, not asylum application statistics. Completion years use EOIR COMP_DATE; 2026 contains partial-year data. Relief granted, denied / removal ordered and other / procedural exhaust the recorded outcomes. Groups of one are included. Historical outcomes do not establish a current assignment. Counts describe recorded cases and do not predict an individual's result.

Official EOIR case data · Source date: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:14:27 GMT

Asylum decisions — separate dataset

Immigration court analytics

Current assignments and source-period outcomes are shown separately

Current judicial assignments are listed in Assigned Judges above. The outcome reports below reflect their stated source periods.

Judges with direct TRAC reports in this analytics snapshot: 10.

Current aggregate decisions: 17,514
Any relief granted: 40.1%
Denied: 59.9%

Current benchmark period: FY 2021 - 2026*. This is a court aggregate, not an individual judge result.

Direct same-period judge outcome spread

10 direct reports · FY 2021 - 2026* · denial range 43.6%–81.9%.

P25 54.2% · median 60.5% · P75 73.3% · IQR 19.1%.

View historical TRAC report associations

Antonio Capistrano · N=779 · denied 60.3% · TRAC report
Dawn Kulick · N=358 · denied 43.6% · TRAC report
Forrest Hoover · N=842 · denied 74.2% · TRAC report
John Carle · N=1,308 · denied 53.3% · TRAC report
Joseph Scott · N=922 · denied 56.7% · TRAC report
Lauren F. Farber · N=446 · denied 50.4% · TRAC report
Mary Futcher · N=207 · denied 70.5% · TRAC report
Mary Lee · N=1,451 · denied 60.7% · TRAC report
Melissa Fox · N=127 · denied 81.9% · TRAC report
William H. McDermott · N=234 · denied 78.6% · TRAC report

These historical report associations are separate from the current court roster. Cohorts require at least five direct reports for the same report court and reporting period.

Court and U.S. annual outcomes

Exact aggregate fiscal-year counts

Fiscal year	Philadelphia Immigration Court cases (N)	Philadelphia Immigration Court any relief	Philadelphia Immigration Court denied	U.S. any relief	U.S. denied
FY2021	835	39.6%	60.4%	43.9%	56.1%
FY2022	844	59.7%	40.3%	51.1%	48.9%
FY2023	1,075	59.1%	40.9%	53.0%	47.0%
FY2024	888	62.7%	37.3%	51.1%	48.9%
FY2025	1,817	36.7%	63.3%	30.7%	69.3%
FY2026	2,434	23.2%	76.8%	12.9%	87.1%

Precomputed from exact TRAC aggregate counts; asylum granted + other relief granted = any relief granted, and outcomes sum to N. FY2026 is year-to-date through the published source cutoff. No values are interpolated. TRAC aggregate source · retrieved 2026-08-30. Methodology.

These figures cover completed asylum decisions in TRAC's published data, not all immigration-court matters. Outcomes may reflect case mix, representation, nationality, detention status, policy, and other factors; they are not a judge quality score. Read the methodology.