WAS

Case Insights: WAS

The WAS immigration court, based in , , has processed 94,469 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 49,043 resulted in relief granted (51.9%), 819 were denied (0.9%), and 44,607 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (47.2%). The court has 54 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 WAS rose by 23.3 percentage points, moving from 49.8% to 73.1%. 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 JMB has the largest recorded caseload at 11,096 decisions (48.7% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 66.7 percentage points — KEM at 93.9% versus AMW at 27.2%. 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.