EOIR / Immigration Judge
Immigration Judge Sichel, Helen - New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court - Asylum Decision Statistics
EOIR's FOIA data release does not report a trailing 12-month asylum grant rate for Immigration Judge Sichel, Helen at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. Across the 5704 decisions on record from November 1997 to November 2020, the asylum grant rate was 74.1%.
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Latest 12-month grant rate
Asylum decisions, trailing 12 months
Lifetime total cases
All recorded asylum decisions
FY2025 court average
Complete fiscal year: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
Court average before the 2025 change
FY2024 baseline: Oct 2023 – Sep 2024
FY2024 was the last full fiscal year before the January 2025 asylum-policy changes, so it is kept fixed as a before-and-after baseline rather than updated. More cases now close administratively, which shifts the merit-decision mix and is why the later figures are much lower.
Last data refresh
From Deportation Data Project FOIA release
Monthly grant-rate trend
| Month | Grant rate |
|---|---|
| 2015-12 | 69.2% |
| 2016-01 | 66.7% |
| 2016-02 | 87.5% |
| 2016-03 | 73.1% |
| 2016-04 | 86.2% |
| 2016-05 | 85.0% |
| 2016-06 | 84.6% |
| 2016-07 | 76.0% |
| 2016-08 | 87.5% |
| 2016-09 | 90.0% |
| 2016-10 | 71.4% |
| 2016-11 | 81.0% |
| 2016-12 | 76.0% |
| 2017-01 | 63.2% |
| 2017-02 | 76.9% |
| 2017-03 | 80.0% |
| 2017-04 | 66.7% |
| 2017-05 | 63.0% |
| 2017-06 | 86.7% |
| 2017-07 | 80.0% |
| 2017-08 | 53.8% |
| 2017-09 | 52.9% |
| 2017-10 | 78.6% |
| 2017-11 | 92.9% |
| 2017-12 | 81.8% |
| 2018-01 | 79.2% |
| 2018-02 | 66.7% |
| 2018-03 | 91.9% |
| 2018-04 | 68.8% |
| 2018-05 | 76.5% |
| 2018-06 | 80.0% |
| 2018-07 | 81.8% |
| 2018-08 | 85.0% |
| 2018-09 | 91.7% |
| 2018-10 | 81.0% |
| 2018-11 | 77.8% |
| 2018-12 | 72.2% |
| 2019-01 | 33.3% |
| 2019-02 | 80.0% |
| 2019-03 | 84.4% |
| 2019-04 | 79.0% |
| 2019-05 | 70.6% |
| 2019-06 | 62.5% |
| 2019-07 | 80.7% |
| 2019-08 | 89.7% |
| 2019-09 | 85.7% |
| 2019-10 | 72.7% |
| 2019-11 | 84.2% |
| 2019-12 | 79.0% |
| 2020-01 | 77.3% |
| 2020-02 | 85.7% |
| 2020-03 | 87.0% |
| 2020-11 | 0.0% |
These statistics describe past asylum decisions, not a prediction of any individual case. Your options depend on the specific facts of your case.