DAL

Case Insights: DAL

The DAL immigration court, based in , , has processed 124,086 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 90,825 resulted in relief granted (73.2%), 272 were denied (0.2%), and 32,989 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (26.6%). The court has 34 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 DAL rose by 14.1 percentage points, moving from 74.2% to 88.3%. 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 RRO has the largest recorded caseload at 17,972 decisions (72.6% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 66.4 percentage points — JFP at 94.4% versus GRH at 28.0%. 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.