AGA

Case Insights: AGA

The AGA immigration court, based in , , has processed 718 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 543 resulted in relief granted (75.6%), 15 were denied (2.1%), and 160 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (22.3%). The court has 3 immigration judges on record, whose individual caseloads and outcome patterns shape the court-wide averages shown above.

Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at AGA rose by 16.8 percentage points, moving from 63.2% to 80.0%. That window spans 11 fiscal years of reported data, covering shifts in bench composition, policy guidance, and nationality mix. The year-by-year table lower on this page shows the underlying annual case volume for every year in the series.

Outcomes vary substantially judge-to-judge. Judge DMB has the largest recorded caseload at 364 decisions (80.2% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 20.2 percentage points — DMB at 80.2% versus JCL at 60.0%. These differences reflect case mix, nationality assignments, and docket type rather than any single factor, and they are why EOIR cautions readers against treating any judge's rate as predictive of an individual case.