OIT SD Test — OIT Test Base City - ECAS
OIT SD Test, VA
EOIR data through August 31, 2026 · built September 11, 2026 · What these dates mean
Where cases heard here come from
Where the people whose cases are heard here live, by state and ZIP code.
- Virginia1 ZIP code100% of cases · 1
The court appears in 1 ZIP code and leads in none of them: cases from here more often go to neighbouring courts.
This is an observation, not a court assignment: it shows where cases of people with this ZIP code were heard, not where filings are directed. Check the official assignment on the EOIR site.
How this is counted
Only cases where the person was not detained are counted: a detained person's case is heard where the facility is, so a home address says nothing about jurisdiction. The court is the one of the latest proceeding started within the last five fiscal years, and the ZIP code is the current one in the release — so for someone who has moved, the case may still sit with the earlier court. A ZIP code enters the table at fifty cases; for half of them the leading court takes nine cases in ten, but for one in six it takes less than three quarters, which is why every court carries its share and its volume.
0%
Asylum grant rate
of 3 decisions · FY2026–FY2026
95% interval: 0% — 56%
- granted:
- 0
- denied:
- 3
Small sample
With only 3 decisions this percentage is an estimate with a wide spread, not a characteristic of the judge. The interval shows how wide.
How this percentage is calculated
Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. What is counted is a decision per proceeding, not per application: asylum, withholding and CAT protection are almost always asked for together, so withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. The U.S. fiscal year runs October 1 – September 30.
How this compares
- OIT SD Test — OIT Test Base City - ECAS0% (3)
- All U.S. courts33% (1,369,763)
This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.
Trend by fiscal year
Not enough yearly data to chart
By applicant nationality
| Nationality | decisions | granted | 95% interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 3 | 0% | 0% — 56% |
Timing and waits
How long each stage of a case takes at this court. Every figure is a median: half of cases are faster, half slower. Data as of August 31, 2026; these are past and current cases, not a forecast for yours.
How long decided cases took
from the NTA to the decision
too few to tellfewer than 30 casesdetailshidefewer than 30 cases
How long decided cases took
from the NTA to the decision
Too few cases with a known NTA date for the duration to mean anything.
Cases decided this year may have begun a decade ago, so this is not a forecast for a case filed today.
The NTA is the charging document; serving it opens the case in court. The figure is a median, not a mean: durations have a long tail, and a few decade-long cases would pull a mean far from the typical case.
How long undecided cases have already waited
from the NTA to the data cutoff
limited data · proceedings in the queue: 3
27 dhalf of proceedings: 27 d — 16 monationwide 34 modetailshidehalf of proceedings: 27 d — 16 mo
How long undecided cases have already waited
from the NTA to the data cutoff
limited data · proceedings in the queue: 3
- Proceedings in the queue
- 3
- Half of proceedings
- 27 d — 16 mo
- Nationwide
- 34 mo · half: 25—45 mo
- Hearing set after the cutoff
- 66.7% (20.8% — 93.9%) · nationwide 85.5%
Decided cases and waiting cases are different cases: the first have already left the queue, the second are still in it, so these two durations can differ in either direction.
The queue counts proceedings with no decision yet in the release. It is how long people have already waited, not how much longer they will.
Shown separately is the share with a hearing scheduled after the cutoff: the rest have no future event in the release at all, and cannot be read as live alongside these.
When the nearest hearing is set
from the data cutoff to the nearest hearing
too few to tellfewer than 50 casesnationwide 7 modetailshidefewer than 50 cases
When the nearest hearing is set
from the data cutoff to the nearest hearing
- Cases with a date set
- 2
- Nationwide
- 7 mo · half: 2—15 mo
Fewer than 50 cases have a date set. There is nothing to base a median on: it would rest on two or three rows.
Hearings set shortly after the cutoff have already happened by the time you read this. The count here is of cases, while the queue above counts proceedings, so the two figures need not agree. The horizon describes the docket, not the speed of the court.
Rows attached to cases already decided are excluded — the release keeps them, and with them the count of those waiting would be a tenth higher. The judge and court come from the schedule row itself: whoever will hold the hearing, not whoever the proceeding is assigned to. Cases where the person is detained have a hearing within days, the rest within months, and courts at detention centres consist almost entirely of the former. The median is only given from fifty cases up: below that it rests on two or three rows.
From a master calendar hearing to the individual hearing
from a master calendar hearing to the one set after it
too few to tellfewer than 50 hearingsnationwide 11 modetailshidefewer than 50 hearings
From a master calendar hearing to the individual hearing
from a master calendar hearing to the one set after it
- Master calendar hearings in the year
- 2
- Followed by an individual hearing
- 0.0% (0.0% — 65.8%) · 0 of 2
- Nationwide
- 11 mo · half: 2—24 mo
- Fewer than 50 hearings were followed by an individual hearing. There is nothing to base a median on: it would rest on two or three cases.
| What was scheduled next | hearings | share | median gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| An individual hearing | 0 | 0.0%0.0% — 65.8%14.7% nationwide | — |
| Another master calendar | 0 | 0.0%0.0% — 65.8%52.9% nationwide | — |
| Nothing: the proceeding is over | 2 | 100.0%34.2% — 100.0%27.5% nationwide | — |
| Nothing: no hearing set yet | 0 | 0.0%0.0% — 65.8%4.9% nationwide | — |
Under each share — the 95% interval.
The figures cover master calendar hearings over the last twelve months of the release and what was set after each of them. The shares describe hearings, not cases: one case passes through several master hearings in a year and is counted as many times.
The next hearing has usually not happened yet: its date can be moved. A separate line shows after how many hearings nothing is scheduled — either the proceeding is over or the calendar has not been filled in, and towards the end of the window the second share grows simply because the calendar has not caught up. Cases where the person is detained move more than twenty times faster than the rest, and courts at detention centres consist almost entirely of them. A slot counts the cases of one judge at one time: you go to your judge's courtroom, not to the building. No hearing dates are shown here in any form. The median is only given from fifty hearings up.
Wait for a first hearing after moving here
from arrival here to the first hearing
too few to tellfewer than 100 movesnationwide 9 modetailshidefewer than 100 moves
Wait for a first hearing after moving here
from arrival here to the first hearing
Cases do not move here; 1 left. Fewer than 100 arrivals, so there is nothing to base a figure on.
The figures describe those who have already moved; they promise nothing about any one case.
The figures cover cases that arrived at this court on a change of venue. Only moves made at least a year before the release cutoff are included: those who arrived later may not have been given a hearing date yet, and their zero would describe the release date rather than the court. Some hearings are scheduled rather than held, and scheduled ones move; shown separately is how many arrivals have no hearing set at all. The gap between two ordinary hearings at the same court is measured between hearings, and what compares with it is the figure also counted from a hearing at the former court, not from the date of arrival. Cases where the person is detained move faster than the rest, and courts at detention centres consist almost entirely of them. The median is only given from a hundred moves up.
In absentia decisions
Removal cases at this court completed without the respondent in the room. This is not about the court's strictness: attendance depends on whether the person is detained, whether notice reached them and whether they have counsel.
0% of proceedings ended in absentia — 0 of 11.
- The whole court0% (11)
- All U.S. courts19% (11,588,297)
| Fiscal year | Proceedings | In absentia | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| FY2025 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| FY2026partial | 8 | 0 | 0% |
The denominator is every completed removal proceeding (RMV): other proceeding types almost never end in absentia. The headline share covers the whole history, while the table shows the latest fiscal years by the proceeding's completion date. An in absentia order can be challenged by a motion to reopen.
Bonds
What it takes to get out of custody at this court: how often an amount is set, and how much.
2 bond decisions in September 2025 — August 2026; an amount was set in 0 of them. 0% are attached by a custody hearing.
An amount was set fewer than 25 times — 0 in all. There is nothing to state a median on: it would describe a handful of cases rather than the judge. The national median amount is $7,500.
How often an amount is set
- The whole court, September 2025 — August 20260% (2)
- The whole court, October 2021 — August 20250% (2)
- All U.S. courts25% (91,185)
The code table covers September 2025 — August 2026; “was” in the amount column covers October 2021 — August 2025.
Under the share — the 95% interval; under the amount — the quartiles.
EOIR publishes no reference for the decision codes on this field — the release contains no lookup for it, so the codes are shown as codes, next to what has been measured. The amount does not depend on the judge alone: courts see different mixes of cases, criminal histories and circumstances of arrest.
How this is counted
"Now" and "before" stand side by side because over the past year both the median amount set and the share released from custody have moved markedly. What is measured under each code is how often an amount is set and how often the person was released from custody within sixty days of the decision: three codes carry an amount almost always and the rest almost never, and that gap is what the whole calculation rests on. The released share is counted not from every decision but from those whose sixty days have already passed: for a decision a week old "not released" would mean "we do not know". Payment itself is not recorded — "released" is read from the custody history, not from a record of a bond being posted. A median is stated from twenty-five amounts upwards, and the quartiles beside it show how widely the judge varies.
Full statisticsMotions, adjournment reasons, appeals to the BIA, three-member panels and second rounds after a remand.
Motions
What this court does with requests made along the way. Motions decided by this court's judges are counted.
No decided motions in this release
Adjournment reasons
Why hearings at this court do not go ahead, and how far that pushes cases.
Too few adjournments to state a share
What became of appeals to the BIA
Appeals against decisions by this court's judges. The key to the table is who filed: the same outcome means opposite things when the respondent appeals and when the government does.
No appeals on the merits in this release
How to cite this page
Figures on this page belong to one monthly release and are replaced whole by the next. The release label and the data cutoff are part of the citation for that reason: without them the number cannot be checked later.
Asylum Beacon. OIT SD Test — OIT Test Base City - ECAS. EOIR Case Data, U.S. DOJ FOIA Library, release 2026-08, data through 2026-08-31. https://asylumbeacon.com/en/court/OIT
Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not give legal advice. The release lags by roughly a month, so check ACIS or Respondent Access for your current case status. The source has known gaps, including among relief applications: if something is missing here, that does not mean it is missing from your case.