ATD

Case Insights: ATD

The ATD immigration court, based in , , has processed 20,596 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 13,657 resulted in relief granted (66.3%), 104 were denied (0.5%), and 6,835 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (33.2%). The court has 13 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 ATD rose by 7.4 percentage points, moving from 77.7% to 85.1%. 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 WAC has the largest recorded caseload at 4,499 decisions (69.9% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 31.5 percentage points — JSI at 78.4% versus EBW at 46.9%. 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.