Immigration litigation duration statistics, by court
Immigration litigation — immigration-related federal suits — take a median of 86 days from filing to resolution, based on 102,493 real cases in the public federal court record. Most resolve between 47 days and 315 days — full statistics, disposition mix, and district breakdown below.
Filing to termination · 102,493 cases · median 86 days
How immigration lawsuit cases end
Of 27,740 resolved cases — the observed record, not a prediction of any one case.
Immigration litigation duration by court
Median time to resolution in the districts with the most immigration lawsuit cases.
| District | Cases | Median | Slowest 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| E.D.N.Y. | 10,637 | 64d | 215d |
| C.D. Cal. | 9,930 | 107d | 1.1 yr |
| S.D. Tex. | 4,189 | 125d | 1.6 yr |
| N.D. Cal. | 4,061 | 138d | 359d |
| W.D. Tex. | 4,055 | 63d | 321d |
| N.D. Ill. | 3,731 | 91d | 241d |
| D.N.J. | 3,649 | 93d | 312d |
| S.D.N.Y. | 3,592 | 79d | 276d |
| E.D. Cal. | 3,572 | 107d | 343d |
| E.D. Va. | 3,039 | 95d | 257d |
| D. Mass. | 2,722 | 69d | 282d |
| S.D. Fla. | 2,603 | 70d | 297d |
| D. Minn. | 2,571 | 56d | 248d |
| W.D. Wash. | 2,542 | 95d | 277d |
| D. Md. | 2,483 | 107d | 287d |
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Tertius, "Immigration litigation: how long federal cases take, and how they end" (2026). Analysis of Federal Judicial Center Integrated Data Base records, 9.1M U.S. federal civil cases. https://usetertius.com/benchmarks/immigration-litigation
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Source: data/fjc/civil.parquet (Federal Judicial Center), cleaned by Tertius · model tertius-acta-6. Durations are filing to termination for U.S. federal civil cases. This is observed historical data, not a prediction of any specific case, and not legal advice. Tertius forecasts timing and disposition, never merits or damages.