PSD

Case Insights: PSD

The PSD immigration court, based in , , has processed 79,715 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 43,320 resulted in relief granted (54.3%), 2,320 were denied (2.9%), and 34,075 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (42.7%). The court has 59 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 PSD rose by 43.4 percentage points, moving from 25.6% to 69.0%. 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 SDA has the largest recorded caseload at 7,861 decisions (57.1% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 95.1 percentage points — MGC at 100.0% versus LRJ at 4.9%. 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.