MIA

Case Insights: MIA

The MIA immigration court, based in , , has processed 192,298 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 120,946 resulted in relief granted (62.9%), 386 were denied (0.2%), and 70,966 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.9%). 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 MIA rose by 14.4 percentage points, moving from 61.0% to 75.4%. 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 JDD has the largest recorded caseload at 8,788 decisions (58.1% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 54.3 percentage points — RYL at 87.5% versus EMS at 33.2%. 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.