BAL

Case Insights: BAL

The BAL immigration court, based in , , has processed 72,075 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 44,854 resulted in relief granted (62.2%), 717 were denied (1.0%), and 26,504 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.8%). The court has 26 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 BAL rose by 7.3 percentage points, moving from 70.3% to 77.6%. 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 ZAM has the largest recorded caseload at 7,296 decisions (52.1% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 79.2 percentage points — QVB at 95.2% versus MWH at 16.0%. 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.