WLA

Case Insights: WLA

The WLA immigration court, based in , , has processed 150,300 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 86,025 resulted in relief granted (57.2%), 580 were denied (0.4%), and 63,695 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (42.4%). The court has 64 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 WLA rose by 21.2 percentage points, moving from 62.8% to 84.0%. 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 CES has the largest recorded caseload at 7,759 decisions (56.9% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 86.5 percentage points — LJF at 86.5% versus IAD at 0.0%. 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.