Immigration Judge WLA

Case Insights: Judge WLA

Immigration Judge WLA has issued 8,013 recorded decisions at the EPD in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 4,639 resulted in relief granted (57.9%), 171 were denied (2.1%), and 3,203 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (40.0%). That volume places Judge WLA among one of the higher-volume dockets at the EPD.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 55.8 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 EPD itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge WLA's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for EPD 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.