EPD

Case Insights: EPD

The EPD immigration court, based in , , has processed 36,363 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 21,322 resulted in relief granted (58.6%), 689 were denied (1.9%), and 14,352 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (39.5%). The court has 29 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 EPD fell by 5.5 percentage points, moving from 67.6% to 62.1%. 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 WLA has the largest recorded caseload at 8,013 decisions (57.9% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 52.6 percentage points — KFH at 100.0% versus DST at 47.4%. 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.