Co: Immigration Court Outcomes

Case Insights: Co Nationals in US Immigration Court

Co nationals have 133,088 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR immigration court dataset, representing a high-volume caseload within the national system. Of those cases, 99,400 resulted in relief granted (74.7%) and 767 were denied (0.6%). The remaining cases involve other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals — outcomes that EOIR reports separately from merits decisions and that affect how raw grant and denial percentages should be read.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 74.1 percentage points, which places Co above the typical EOIR denial-heavy baseline. Grant rates for any nationality reflect a mix of the underlying relief types sought (asylum, withholding of removal, cancellation of removal, adjustment, and voluntary departure), the country-conditions evidence available in a given period, and the specific courts and judges that hear a disproportionate share of that country's cases. Two nationalities with similar overall rates can have very different case compositions beneath the headline number.

Because immigration outcomes are heavily case-, judge-, and court-specific, the fleet-wide figures shown here are useful for orientation and research rather than prediction. EOIR and TRAC Immigration both emphasize that country-level grant rates are descriptive summaries of past decisions, not forecasts for any individual proceeding. The court-by-court breakdown below and the sibling guides on this site explain how representation, relief type, and country-conditions evidence influence the final outcome in any single case.