PIS

Case Insights: PIS

The PIS immigration court, based in , , has processed 40,557 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 26,006 resulted in relief granted (64.1%), 892 were denied (2.2%), and 13,659 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (33.7%). The court has 40 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 PIS rose by 9.8 percentage points, moving from 62.4% to 72.2%. 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 FTP has the largest recorded caseload at 4,710 decisions (71.0% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 79.5 percentage points — NHB at 99.3% versus JVJ at 19.8%. 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.