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Immigration Judge AJC

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 789 merits decisions place Judge AJC among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 789 decisions FY2015–2025 (#302 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.2%
Asylum grant rate
57.8%
Asylum denial rate
789
Asylum decisions

Judge AJC in one line

Judge AJC's asylum grant rate is 42.2% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 789 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

42.2%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
789
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-6.1 pp
vs. national average
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"AJC" 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. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AJC 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)

42.2% 792nd of 1696 higher than 904 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 %
2018 1 1 0 100.0%
2020 338 107 231 31.7%
2021 215 98 117 45.6%
2022 172 87 85 50.6%
2023 63 40 23 63.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AJC'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 42.2% (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 AJC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
LSA 42.2% same 301 LIGHT Sterling
DST 42.2% same 83 THIN El Paso
MMT 42.2% same 45 THIN Denver
EAK 42.3% +0.1 pp 846 FULL Baltimore
AKP 42.3% +0.1 pp 673 FULL Imperial
DCA 42.3% +0.1 pp 26 THIN Kansas City

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge AJC runs 42.2% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ SML
95.5%
1,257 merits
Bench low
IJ ASM
4.5%
264 merits

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

  • IJ JLS · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 790 merits · 43.8% grant
  • IJ REF · Boston Immigration Court · 788 merits · 71.8% grant
  • IJ RW · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 791 merits · 7.8% grant
  • IJ SJS · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · 792 merits · 61.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code AJC: 789 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge AJC's 789-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AJC at San Francisco Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 789. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 789 decisions FY2015–2025 (#302 of 1.7K).

Judge AJC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 789, 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 AJC'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.