MEM

Case Insights: MEM

The MEM immigration court, based in , , has processed 105,691 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 66,311 resulted in relief granted (62.7%), 135 were denied (0.1%), and 39,245 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (37.1%). The court has 21 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 MEM rose by 29.7 percentage points, moving from 56.7% to 86.4%. 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 RLH has the largest recorded caseload at 20,992 decisions (57.4% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 64.1 percentage points — HKM at 91.3% versus LV1 at 27.2%. 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.