KRO

Case Insights: KRO

The KRO immigration court, based in , , has processed 54,008 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 27,824 resulted in relief granted (51.5%), 958 were denied (1.8%), and 25,226 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (46.7%). The court has 23 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 KRO fell by 10.7 percentage points, moving from 59.2% to 48.5%. 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 BSC has the largest recorded caseload at 8,422 decisions (38.7% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 83.4 percentage points — PJM at 86.9% versus EMS at 3.5%. 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.