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More than 10,000 people have immigration cases pending in federal Immigration Court in Buffalo.
It’s the busiest immigration court in Upstate New York.
Most of the individuals with pending cases in Buffalo come from nations in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which tracks federal law enforcement data on immigration and other topics.
The two top nations on the list are Ecuador and Venezuela. More than 1,800 people from Ecuador have pending cases and nearly 1,700 people from Venezuela do.
The backlog of immigration cases in Buffalo began spiking during the federal fiscal year from October 2023 to September 2024, when Democrat Joe Biden was still president. The number of pending cases reached more than 12,000 that year, up from about 8,100 the year before.
That’s an increase of more than 50%.
For the full fiscal year in 2025, the court had a backlog of about 10,500 cases. That was down to just over 10,000 as of December.
As recently as 2021, the case backlog in Buffalo was just 2,500 cases, according to TRAC data.
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