POO

Case Insights: POO

The POO immigration court, based in , , has processed 19,384 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 9,814 resulted in relief granted (50.6%), 75 were denied (0.4%), and 9,495 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (49.0%). The court has 13 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 POO fell by 3.4 percentage points, moving from 63.7% to 60.3%. 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 MIN has the largest recorded caseload at 4,967 decisions (41.2% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 52.6 percentage points — CSK at 81.2% versus LEM at 28.6%. 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.