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Immigration Judge AAB

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge AAB's 78.1% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 78.1% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

78.1%
Asylum grant rate
21.9%
Asylum denial rate
64
Asylum decisions

Judge AAB in one line

Judge AAB's asylum grant rate is 78.1% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 64 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

78.1%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
64
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
+29.8 pp
vs. national average
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"AAB" is the anonymized judge code DOJ's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) assigns in its public case-data release, not a verified public identity. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset, so this code should not be read as confirming, or attributing these statistics to, any specific named individual. See our methodology for detail.

Statistical data only. Judge AAB's 78.1% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AAB vs all tracked IJs by asylum grant rate

Where this judge's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked immigration judge (a leniency measure, not a quality ranking)

78.1% 127th of 1696 higher than 1,569 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Year-by-Year Outcomes

Historical asylum merits decisions for this anonymized EOIR judge code. Annual rows can be thin, and are not a forecast of any future case.

FY Decisions Grants Denials Grant %
2019 3 0 3 0.0%
2020 2 0 2 0.0%
2023 23 22 1 95.7%
2024 35 27 8 77.1%
2025 1 1 0 100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AAB's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge AAB's 78.1% grant rate, an upper-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge AAB are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JSI 77.9% -0.2 pp 149 LIGHT Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
JBY 78.3% +0.2 pp 69 THIN Chelmsford
DK1 77.8% -0.3 pp 752 FULL Hyattsville
ETK 77.8% -0.3 pp 207 LIGHT Annandale
CSG 78.4% +0.3 pp 2,016 HEAVY San Francisco
KAN 78.4% +0.3 pp 625 FULL New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge AAB runs 78.1% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ LAW
91.2%
34 merits
Bench low
IJ NJP
7.1%
28 merits

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ PJE · San Juan Immigration Court · 64 merits · 81.2% grant
  • IJ LWP · Concord Immigration Court · 64 merits · 62.5% grant
  • IJ JAM · Harlingen Immigration Court · 64 merits · 28.1% grant
  • IJ CNM · Pearsall Immigration Court · 64 merits · 21.9% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge AAB at Annandale Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge AAB's 64-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AAB at Annandale Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 78.1%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 64 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge AAB's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 78.1%, not hand-typed editorial values. justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Judge AAB's grant/denial/merits figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.