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Immigration Judge AAV

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 26 merits decisions make Judge AAV a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 34.6% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

34.6%
Asylum grant rate
65.4%
Asylum denial rate
26
Asylum decisions

Judge AAV in one line

Judge AAV's asylum grant rate is 34.6% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 26 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

34.6%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
26
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-13.7 pp
vs. national average
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"AAV" 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 AAV's 65.4% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AAV 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)

34.6% 990th of 1696 higher than 706 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AAV'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 34.6% (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 AAV are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JNM 34.7% +0.1 pp 308 LIGHT Houston - S. Gessner Road
OEA 34.5% -0.1 pp 226 LIGHT San Diego
JOC 34.7% +0.1 pp 95 THIN Eloy
MKN 34.5% -0.1 pp 58 THIN Detroit
RRO 34.8% +0.2 pp 1,207 FULL Dallas
CMR 34.8% +0.2 pp 575 FULL Houston - S. Gessner Road

Same-bench poles at Elizabeth

Same-bench spread at Elizabeth: Judge AAV runs 34.6% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AAV at Elizabeth Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 26. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 26 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge AAV's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 26, 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 AAV'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.