OTO

Case Insights: OTO

The OTO immigration court, based in , , has processed 25,024 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 15,825 resulted in relief granted (63.2%), 393 were denied (1.6%), and 8,806 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (35.2%). The court has 24 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 OTO fell by 2.3 percentage points, moving from 78.3% to 76.0%. 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 JP1 has the largest recorded caseload at 5,576 decisions (67.0% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 87.4 percentage points — MGO at 99.1% versus DKT at 11.7%. 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.