ORL

Case Insights: ORL

The ORL immigration court, based in , , has processed 93,211 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 59,777 resulted in relief granted (64.1%), 223 were denied (0.2%), and 33,211 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (35.6%). The court has 27 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 ORL rose by 15.9 percentage points, moving from 61.6% to 77.5%. 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 VG has the largest recorded caseload at 8,293 decisions (67.6% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 68.3 percentage points — PJE at 83.6% versus HKM at 15.3%. 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.