BUF

Case Insights: BUF

The BUF immigration court, based in , , has processed 20,007 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 12,544 resulted in relief granted (62.7%), 289 were denied (1.4%), and 7,174 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (35.9%). The court has 7 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 BUF rose by 15.3 percentage points, moving from 64.1% to 79.4%. 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 WRU has the largest recorded caseload at 6,607 decisions (57.4% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 31.4 percentage points — RTD at 86.0% versus DHO at 54.6%. 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.