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December 1, 2025

S.F. has largest backlog of immigration cases in California. Here’s why.
By Mariana Garcia


The city’s immigration court has the largest backlog of any immigration court in California, so high that final hearings are being scheduled for as far out as 2029. San Francisco immigration judges had over 120,000 pending cases in fiscal year 2025, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse from Syracuse University.


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