The New York immigration courts
New York City has three immigration courts: 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick Street. Your hearing notice says which one is yours. Going to the wrong building is a real risk, because they are separate courts in separate buildings a mile apart.
Current as of September 2026. We re-check this page every quarter and after any rule change.
There are three courts, three buildings, and three sets of hours. The single most common avoidable problem is arriving at the wrong one. Read your notice, and read it again the night before. Everything that happens once you are inside is described on how removal proceedings work; this page is about the buildings.
The three courts
Federal Plaza
26 Federal Plaza
12th Floor, Room 1237
New York, NY 10278
Public hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Window filing hours are 8:30 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.
The court is open Monday to Friday and closed on federal holidays.
Broadway
Ted Weiss Federal Building
290 Broadway, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10007
Public hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Window filing hours are 8:30 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.
The court is open Monday to Friday and closed on federal holidays.
Varick Street
201 Varick Street
5th Floor, Room 507
New York, NY 10014
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. Court information changes. Confirm against your hearing notice and the EOIR page before you travel.
On detained and non-detained dockets
We are not going to label these courts detained or non-detained. EOIR's individual court pages for Federal Plaza, Broadway, and Varick do not carry a docket-type field, and the court's own page for Varick says nothing about detention either way. By contrast, EOIR does name a detained court where that is the case, as with the Miami Krome (Detained) Immigration Court.
What matters for you is simpler than the label: your notice tells you where and when to appear. If you need to know the docket characteristics for a strategic reason, that is a question for counsel with the current EOIR listing in hand, not for a web page. If the person is in custody, the detained docket runs on the judge's own deadlines, which are often days rather than weeks; read detained removal defense.
Enforcement at the New York courthouses
On May 18, 2026, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered an order in African Communities Together v. DHS/ICE limiting ICE civil-enforcement arrests at 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick Street, the three Manhattan immigration courts.
We state the order and its date. We do not make claims about the extent of compliance, because we have not verified any, and we do not summarize the order's exceptions here because the text controls and it should be read in full. If you have a concern specific to your case, raise it with your attorney in advance of the hearing. Staying away is not an option: missing the hearing means an in absentia removal order under INA 240(b)(5)(A).
Practical notes for the day
- Allow real time for security. These are federal buildings with screening lines that are long in the morning.
- Bring photo identification and the hearing notice.
- Note the two sets of hours. Public hours and window filing hours are different, and the filing window closes before the building does. If you are filing at the window rather than through ECAS, do not arrive at 4:15.
- Do not rely on electronics. Bring paper copies of what you need.
- Interpreters are provided by the court for the hearing. You do not bring one.
- Expect to wait. Master calendar hearings are grouped, and your four-minute matter may come after two hours of sitting.
- Arrive late rather than not at all. Missing the hearing means an in absentia removal order under INA 240(b)(5)(A). See in absentia orders.
Filing
Practitioners of record must file electronically through ECAS under 8 C.F.R. 1003.31, and the court applies a receipt rule: a document is not filed until the court has it. Non-detained filing deadlines are generally 15 days before a master calendar hearing and at least 30 days before an individual hearing, with responses within 10 days; detained deadlines are as the judge specifies. See the deadlines page. Applications and motions that carry a government filing fee 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 current schedule is on the EOIR fee page.
The New York caseload
As of June 2026, TRAC recorded 103,977 pending cases for people with addresses in Queens County, 72.5 percent of them with a representative on file, and 81,699 in Kings County, 77.0 percent represented. Nationally, EOIR had 3,195,137 cases pending at the same date. Those representation rates are far above South Florida's, which is one reason the Miami page reads differently.
Appeals from New York go to the Second Circuit
A petition for review from a case completed in New York goes to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, within 30 days of the final order of removal under INA 242(b)(1) and (b)(2). Filing it does not stay removal under INA 242(b)(3)(B), but under a standing arrangement with the government described in In re Immigration Petitions for Review Pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 702 F.3d 160 (2d Cir. 2012), a petitioner who has moved for a stay is generally not removed while the motion is pending. See the petition for review. Before any of that, the appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals is due within 30 calendar days; see the BIA appeal.
If your case is docketed somewhere else
If you live in New York and your case is in another state, read change of venue, and read it early. Venue changes only on motion, for good cause, with a fixed street address, under 8 C.F.R. 1003.20, and under Matter of I-B-M-S-, 29 I&N Dec. 628 (BIA 2026), a request made close to an individual hearing is less likely to establish good cause.
Read next: your first hearing, the Newark court, the Miami courts, or contact our Brooklyn office.
Common questions
Which New York immigration court is my case in?
Your hearing notice states the court and the address. You can also confirm through the EOIR Automated Case Information System at 1-800-898-7180 or acis.eoir.justice.gov with your A-number, though EOIR states the written notice is the official source.
What are the filing window hours?
As of the EOIR pages we checked in August 2026, all three New York courts list public hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Window filing hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Federal Plaza and Broadway, and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Varick, Monday through Friday, closed on federal holidays.
Can ICE arrest people at the New York immigration courts?
A federal court order limits it. On May 18, 2026, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered an order in African Communities Together v. DHS/ICE limiting ICE civil-enforcement arrests at 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway and 201 Varick Street. We state the order and its date. We do not make claims about compliance, because we have not verified any.
Do I still have to appear if I am afraid to go?
Yes. Failing to appear results in an in absentia removal order under INA 240(b)(5)(A). If you have a specific safety concern, raise it with counsel before the hearing date, not by staying away.
Tell us where your case is. We will tell you what is still possible.
You get a free case review with an attorney, in your language. We speak English, Russian, Spanish and Uzbek in-house, and we bring in a live interpreter for anything else. We will tell you what stage you are at, which forms of relief are open to you, what your deadlines are, and whether we can help. If we cannot, we will say so.