CHI

Case Insights: CHI

The CHI immigration court, based in , , has processed 111,776 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 73,870 resulted in relief granted (66.1%), 842 were denied (0.8%), and 37,064 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (33.2%). The court has 39 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 CHI rose by 29.4 percentage points, moving from 54.3% 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 PKM has the largest recorded caseload at 9,398 decisions (80.3% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 94.0 percentage points — JD at 94.8% versus VJ1 at 0.8%. 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.