The U.S. immigration court system is undergoing a major expansion as the Executive Office for Immigration Review (Executive Office for Immigration Review) moves to dramatically increase its judicial workforce in an effort to address the nation’s growing backlog of immigration cases.
According to the agency, 77 new immigration judges and 5 temporary immigration judges have recently been added, marking what officials describe as the largest single class of adjudicators ever brought into the system. With this latest wave of hiring, the total number of immigration judges now approaches nearly 700 nationwide.
The expansion is not a one-off development. So far in the current fiscal year, EOIR has appointed 153 permanent immigration judges, setting a new record for the most judges hired in a single year. Agency officials say this aggressive hiring push is part of a broader effort to strengthen the capacity of immigration courts and improve case processing speed across the country.
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