The Miami immigration courts
Miami-Dade has more pending immigration cases than any county in New York City, and a far lower share of them have a lawyer. The court at One Riverview Square on South Miami Avenue hears the cases of people who are not in custody. The Miami Krome (Detained) court sits inside the Krome North Processing Center.
Current as of September 2026. We re-check this page every quarter and after any rule change.
Miami-Dade County has the largest pending immigration caseload of any county we track, and one of the widest gaps between the number of people in proceedings and the number with a lawyer.
Our managing attorney is admitted in Florida, and immigration practice is federal, so the same lawyers who appear in the New York courts appear in Miami. What happens inside the courtroom is on how removal proceedings work.
The two courts
Miami Immigration Court
One Riverview Square
333 S. Miami Avenue, Suite 700
Miami, FL 33130
Public hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Window filing hours are 8:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.
The court is open Monday to Friday and closed on federal holidays.
Miami Krome (Detained)
Krome North Processing Center
18201 SW 12th Street
Miami, FL 33194
Public hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Window filing hours are 8:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.
The court is open Monday to Friday and closed on federal holidays.
Addresses, telephone numbers, and hours are taken from the individual EOIR court pages at justice.gov/eoir, checked August 17, 2026. Confirm against your hearing notice before you travel. We do not label the South Miami Avenue court detained or non-detained; EOIR's page for it carries no docket-type field.
A note on Broward Transitional Center
Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach is a detention facility. It is not listed by EOIR as a separate immigration court with its own address, phone number, and docket. Several sites, including an earlier version of our own materials, described it as a court. We have corrected that here. If a relative is held there, the hearing notice will name the court that actually has the case.
The South Florida caseload
Here is the TRAC data for June 2026, by the county of the respondent's address:
| County | Pending cases | Share with a representative |
|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade, FL | 138,777 | 38.1% |
| Broward, FL | 50,610 | 33.6% |
| Queens, NY, for comparison | 103,977 | 72.5% |
| Kings, NY, for comparison | 81,699 | 77.0% |
Roughly two out of three people with a pending case in Miami-Dade or Broward do not have a representative on file. In Brooklyn and Queens the ratio is close to reversed. Nationally, EOIR had 3,195,137 cases pending at the same date, and in the cases where a removal order issued in fiscal year 2026 through June, 21.5 percent of the people had an attorney; that figure counts only cases that ended in an order, so it should not be read as a representation rate for everyone. We do not draw a causal claim from any of these numbers. We do note that a person without a lawyer is the one who concedes a charge the government could not have proven.
Detained cases move fast
If someone is held at Krome or at another South Florida facility, the timelines on this site's other pages do not apply to them. Detained dockets run in weeks. Filing deadlines are not set by the 15-day and 30-day rules at all: for detained cases, deadlines are as the immigration judge specifies.
Whether the person can get a bond hearing is a legal question, and in the Eleventh Circuit the answer changed in 2026. In Hernandez Alvarez v. Warden, FDC Miami, No. 25-14065 (11th Cir. May 6, 2026) (published), the court held that a person who was never admitted and was arrested inside the country is detained under INA 236, and is eligible for a bond hearing before an immigration judge, rejecting the Board's contrary reading. Mandatory detention under INA 236(c) for the listed criminal grounds, widened by the Laken Riley Act, Pub. L. 119-1 (Jan. 29, 2025), is a separate question. Read detained removal defense.
If someone has been detained, locating them and seeking bond is the immediate work, and it is a different practice from the removal case itself. Our detention and bond practice lives there.
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Practical notes
- Public hours and filing window hours differ. The window closes before the building does.
- Bring photo identification and your hearing notice.
- The court provides the interpreter for the hearing.
- Practitioners of record file through ECAS, under 8 C.F.R. 1003.31. The court applies a receipt rule.
- Government filing fees are paid through the EOIR Payment Portal, which has not accepted checks since February 23, 2026. Those are government fees, not our legal fees; the schedule is on the EOIR fee page.
- Appear. Missing a hearing means an in absentia removal order under INA 240(b)(5)(A). See in absentia orders.
Appeals from Florida go to the Eleventh Circuit
A petition for review from a Florida case goes to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, within 30 days of the final order of removal under INA 242(b)(1). Filing a petition does not stay removal; INA 242(b)(3)(B) says so expressly, and a stay is sought under the four-factor standard of Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418 (2009). The Eleventh Circuit has held, sitting en banc, that the 90-day deadline for a motion to reopen is subject to equitable tolling, in Avila-Santoyo v. U.S. Att'y Gen., 713 F.3d 1357 (11th Cir. 2013).
The Eleventh Circuit is bound by Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, No. 24-777 (March 4, 2026), in which the Supreme Court held that the courts of appeals apply substantial-evidence review, not de novo review, to the persecution determination, reversing only where the record compels it. That makes the record built in the Miami court harder to repair on appeal. Before the petition, the appeal to the Board is due within 30 calendar days; see the BIA appeal.
Read next: the individual hearing, the New York courts, court deadlines, or a free case review.
Common questions
Where is the Miami immigration court?
The court is at One Riverview Square, 333 S. Miami Avenue, Suite 700, Miami, FL 33130. The telephone number is 305-789-4221. As of the EOIR page checked in August 2026, public hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and window filing hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, closed on federal holidays.
Is there a separate court at Krome?
Yes. EOIR operates the Miami Krome (Detained) Immigration Court at the Krome North Processing Center, 18201 SW 12th Street, Miami, FL 33194, telephone 786-422-8700. EOIR names it a detained court.
Is there an immigration court at Broward Transitional Center?
No. Broward Transitional Center is a detention facility, not an immigration court with its own address, phone number and docket. Several sites, including an earlier version of our own materials, described it as a court. We have corrected that here.
Do I need a lawyer in Miami more than elsewhere?
The data is stark. As of June 2026, TRAC recorded 38.1 percent of pending Miami-Dade cases and 33.6 percent of Broward cases with a representative on file, against 77.0 percent in Kings County and 72.5 percent in Queens. We do not draw a causal claim from that, but the gap is real.
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