BLM

Case Insights: BLM

The BLM immigration court, based in , , has processed 54,212 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 34,289 resulted in relief granted (63.2%), 359 were denied (0.7%), and 19,564 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.1%). The court has 18 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 BLM rose by 34.4 percentage points, moving from 49.3% to 83.7%. 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 BSI has the largest recorded caseload at 9,306 decisions (60.0% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 82.2 percentage points — RFS at 96.4% versus VJ1 at 14.2%. 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.