Immigration Judge DHO

Case Insights: Judge DHO

Immigration Judge DHO has issued 5,961 recorded decisions at the BUF in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 3,257 resulted in relief granted (54.6%), 128 were denied (2.1%), and 2,576 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (43.2%). That volume places Judge DHO among one of the higher-volume dockets at the BUF.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 52.5 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as roughly balanced relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.

The BUF itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge DHO's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for BUF lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.