ELP

Case Insights: ELP

The ELP immigration court, based in , , has processed 75,182 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 42,670 resulted in relief granted (56.8%), 174 were denied (0.2%), and 32,338 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (43.0%). The court has 37 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 ELP rose by 31.9 percentage points, moving from 41.2% to 73.1%. 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 NHB has the largest recorded caseload at 13,226 decisions (65.5% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 78.0 percentage points — SSL at 100.0% versus BAB at 22.0%. 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.