What is Judge ALS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge ALS has an overall grant rate of 51.3% across 1,524 decisions at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court. The denial rate is 48.7%.

Where does Judge ALS serve?

Judge ALS serves at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge ALS decided?

Judge ALS has decided 1,524 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 782 grants and 742 denials.

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

No. Judge ALS's 51.3% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judges → Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

Immigration judge · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

Immigration Judge ALS

Name: Immigration Judge ALS - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,524 merits decisions place Judge ALS among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,524 decisions FY2015–2025 (#78 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

51.3%
Asylum grant rate: 48.7%
Asylum denial rate: 1,524
Asylum decisions

Judge ALS in one line

Judge ALS's asylum grant rate is 51.3% (mid-band grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,524 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

51.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,524
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +3.0 pp
vs. national average

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"ALS" 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

1,524merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted782(51%)Denied742(49%)

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 ALS 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)

51.3% 584th of 1696 higher than 1,112 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 %
2015	2	1	1	50.0%
2016	4	2	2	50.0%
2017	1	1	0	100.0%
2018	5	2	3	40.0%
2019	334	115	219	34.4%
2020	236	103	133	43.6%
2021	97	36	61	37.1%
2022	169	93	76	55.0%
2023	185	122	63	65.9%
2024	190	138	52	72.6%
2025	301	169	132	56.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ALS'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 51.3% (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 ALS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
REF	51.3%	same	78	THIN	Agana (Hagatna)
SMR	51.3%	same	76	THIN	El Paso
DHP	51.4%	+0.1 pp	1,092	FULL	Detroit
FPO	51.4%	+0.1 pp	831	FULL	New York - Varick Street
LRJ	51.1%	-0.2 pp	976	FULL	Miami
JRW	51.1%	-0.2 pp	657	FULL	Cleveland

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - West

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 70 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge ALS is at 51.3%.

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 MGM · Miami Immigration Court · 1,530 merits · 31.8% grant
IJ AJR · Newark Immigration Court · 1,517 merits · 86.9% grant
IJ TSA · Miami Immigration Court · 1,535 merits · 26.1% grant
IJ PKM · Chicago Immigration Court · 1,503 merits · 55.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code ALS: 1,524 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge ALS's 1,524-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ALS at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,524. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,524 decisions FY2015–2025 (#78 of 1.7K).

Judge ALS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,524, 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 ALS'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.