LRO

Case Insights: LRO

The LRO immigration court, based in , , has processed 39,430 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 30,925 resulted in relief granted (78.4%), 533 were denied (1.4%), and 7,972 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (20.2%). The court has 45 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 LRO rose by 12.8 percentage points, moving from 62.0% to 74.8%. 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 RLC has the largest recorded caseload at 2,748 decisions (68.3% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 77.0 percentage points — BHL at 100.0% versus ADM at 23.0%. 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.