POR

Case Insights: POR

The POR immigration court, based in , , has processed 5,204 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 4,192 resulted in relief granted (80.6%), 7 were denied (0.1%), and 1,005 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (19.3%). The court has 5 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 POR rose by 18.3 percentage points, moving from 68.3% to 86.6%. 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 SDC has the largest recorded caseload at 1,886 decisions (80.7% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 15.8 percentage points — CSK at 91.1% versus MIN at 75.3%. 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.