NOL

Case Insights: NOL

The NOL immigration court, based in , , has processed 82,967 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 52,175 resulted in relief granted (62.9%), 158 were denied (0.2%), and 30,634 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.9%). The court has 20 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 NOL rose by 37.8 percentage points, moving from 44.2% to 82.0%. 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 JBL has the largest recorded caseload at 27,356 decisions (62.0% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 93.4 percentage points — SJC at 94.3% versus WWS at 0.9%. 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.