ELZ

Case Insights: ELZ

The ELZ immigration court, based in , , has processed 42,913 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 24,508 resulted in relief granted (57.1%), 1,276 were denied (3.0%), and 17,129 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (39.9%). The court has 46 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 ELZ rose by 14.5 percentage points, moving from 45.9% to 60.4%. 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 MT has the largest recorded caseload at 5,246 decisions (51.2% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 52.2 percentage points — JHK at 81.3% versus DH at 29.1%. 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.