TRAC Immigration: The Continuing Impact of The Pandemic on Immigration Court Case Completions

The latest report from TRAC Immigration is no surprise — but it is sobering indeed:

“As of the end of January 2022, the pace of Immigration Court work continues to lag as a result of the pandemic. There have been not only fewer case completions, but the average time required to dispose of each case has doubled since before the pandemic began.

Figure 1. Case Receipts and Case Closures
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Immigration Courts recorded 86,297 case completions so far in FY 2022 covering the period October 2021 – January 2022. How­ever, during this same period the court re­ceived three times that many new cases—some 260,038 new filings. See Figure 1.”

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KJ