PHO

Case Insights: PHO

The PHO immigration court, based in , , has processed 55,661 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 28,055 resulted in relief granted (50.4%), 227 were denied (0.4%), and 27,379 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (49.2%). The court has 19 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 PHO rose by 21.2 percentage points, moving from 37.8% to 59.0%. 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 MS1 has the largest recorded caseload at 8,082 decisions (51.2% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 40.3 percentage points — AJN at 67.0% versus ACH at 26.7%. 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.