NLA

Case Insights: NLA

The NLA immigration court, based in , , has processed 58,361 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 34,948 resulted in relief granted (59.9%), 350 were denied (0.6%), and 23,063 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (39.5%). The court has 28 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 NLA rose by 28.9 percentage points, moving from 47.7% to 76.6%. 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 FMT has the largest recorded caseload at 8,335 decisions (64.4% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 63.0 percentage points — NAR at 83.6% versus JFW at 20.6%. 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.