ATL

Case Insights: ATL

The ATL immigration court, based in , , has processed 97,042 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 68,710 resulted in relief granted (70.8%), 136 were denied (0.1%), and 28,196 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (29.1%). The court has 33 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 ATL rose by 25.4 percentage points, moving from 61.5% to 86.9%. 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 NBM has the largest recorded caseload at 8,489 decisions (73.7% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 64.2 percentage points — SEO at 94.5% versus JCR at 30.3%. 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.