OAK

Case Insights: OAK

The OAK immigration court, based in , , has processed 43,733 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 27,118 resulted in relief granted (62.0%), 755 were denied (1.7%), and 15,860 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.3%). The court has 47 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 OAK rose by 24.0 percentage points, moving from 53.6% to 77.6%. 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 JAD has the largest recorded caseload at 6,442 decisions (57.3% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 86.3 percentage points — BNJ at 89.5% versus X38 at 3.2%. 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.