What is Judge AAS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge AAS has an overall grant rate of 29.5% across 61 decisions at the Tacoma Immigration Court. The denial rate is 70.5%.

Where does Judge AAS serve?

Judge AAS serves at the Tacoma Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge AAS decided?

Judge AAS has decided 61 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 18 grants and 43 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge AAS's 70.5% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge AAS

Name: Immigration Judge AAS - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 61 merits decisions make Judge AAS a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 29.5% (below the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

29.5%
Asylum grant rate: 70.5%
Asylum denial rate: 61
Asylum decisions

Judge AAS in one line

Judge AAS's asylum grant rate is 29.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 61 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

29.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 61
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: -18.8 pp
vs. national average

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"AAS" 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

61merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted18(30%)Denied43(70%)

Statistical data only. Judge AAS's 70.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AAS 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)

29.5% 1121st of 1696 higher than 575 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 %
2017	55	16	39	29.1%
2018	6	2	4	33.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AAS's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 29.5% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

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

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MMR	29.5%	same	1,351	FULL	Fort Snelling
LIY	29.5%	same	146	LIGHT	Chicago
ODS	29.4%	-0.1 pp	707	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
PAB	29.4%	-0.1 pp	401	LIGHT	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
PMH	29.4%	-0.1 pp	163	LIGHT	Imperial
CMS	29.7%	+0.2 pp	1,001	FULL	Houston - S. Gessner Road

Same-bench poles at Tacoma

Same-bench spread at Tacoma: Judge AAS runs 29.5% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

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

IJ JOC · LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · 61 merits · 31.1% grant
IJ DGT · Harlingen Immigration Court · 61 merits · 42.6% grant
IJ ICF · Tucson Immigration Court · 61 merits · 42.6% grant
IJ AGL · Hartford Immigration Court · 61 merits · 44.3% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge AAS's 61-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AAS at Tacoma Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 61. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 61 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge AAS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 61, 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 AAS'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.