DET

Case Insights: DET

The DET immigration court, based in , , has processed 34,714 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 20,461 resulted in relief granted (58.9%), 254 were denied (0.7%), and 13,999 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (40.3%). The court has 11 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 DET rose by 29.1 percentage points, moving from 53.0% to 82.1%. 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 MJJ has the largest recorded caseload at 8,151 decisions (61.7% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 63.4 percentage points — DK1 at 91.5% versus VJ1 at 28.1%. 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.