Immigration judge · New York - Broadway Immigration Court

Immigration Judge AKR

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge AKR's 93.4% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 93.4% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

93.4%
Asylum grant rate
6.6%
Asylum denial rate
181
Asylum decisions

Judge AKR in one line

Judge AKR's asylum grant rate is 93.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 181 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

93.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
181
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+45.1 pp
vs. national average
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"AKR" 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 AKR's 93.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AKR 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)

93.4% 6th of 1696 higher than 1,690 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 %
2020 6 6 0 100.0%
2021 11 11 0 100.0%
2022 92 86 6 93.5%
2023 72 66 6 91.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AKR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge AKR's 93.4% 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 AKR are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
NIF 93.5% +0.1 pp 31 THIN Chelmsford
PRM 93.3% -0.1 pp 1,053 FULL Sacramento
GTC 93.3% -0.1 pp 726 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
ILD 92.9% -0.5 pp 28 THIN Philadelphia
MH 92.8% -0.6 pp 387 LIGHT San Francisco
PMM 94.2% +0.8 pp 866 FULL New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at New York - Broadway

Same-bench spread at New York - Broadway: Judge AKR runs 93.4% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ RDW · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 181 merits · 78.5% grant
  • IJ EM1 · Newark Immigration Court · 181 merits · 44.2% grant
  • IJ MWK · Aurora Immigration Court · 181 merits · 33.7% grant
  • IJ RSH · El Paso Immigration Court · 181 merits · 29.8% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge AKR at New York - Broadway Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AKR at New York - Broadway Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 93.4%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 181 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge AKR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 93.4%, 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 AKR'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.