Immigration Judge PWS

Case Insights: Judge PWS

Immigration Judge PWS has issued 1,176 recorded decisions at the WAS in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 608 resulted in relief granted (51.7%), 13 were denied (1.1%), and 555 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (47.2%). That volume places Judge PWS among a moderate docket at the WAS.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 50.6 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 WAS itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge PWS's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for WAS 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.