What is Judge AMS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge AMS has an overall grant rate of 25.3% across 261 decisions at the LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena). The denial rate is 74.7%.

Where does Judge AMS serve?

Judge AMS serves at the LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena). You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge AMS decided?

Judge AMS has decided 261 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 66 grants and 195 denials.

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

No. Judge AMS's 74.7% 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 AMS

Name: Immigration Judge AMS - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge AMS's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 25.3% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is mid-band at 261 decisions FY2015–2025.

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

25.3%
Asylum grant rate: 74.7%
Asylum denial rate: 261
Asylum decisions

Judge AMS in one line

Judge AMS's asylum grant rate is 25.3% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 261 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

25.3%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate: 261
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: -23.0 pp
vs. national average

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"AMS" 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

261merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted66(25%)Denied195(75%)

Statistical data only. Judge AMS's 74.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge AMS 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)

25.3% 1235th of 1696 higher than 461 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	2	0	2	0.0%
2019	85	7	78	8.2%
2020	58	11	47	19.0%
2021	28	7	21	25.0%
2022	31	10	21	32.3%
2023	55	30	25	54.5%
2024	2	1	1	50.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge AMS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge AMS's 25.3% grant rate, a lower-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 AMS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CEM	25.3%	same	79	THIN	Adelanto
SMR	25.4%	+0.1 pp	457	LIGHT	El Paso Service Processing Center
NAM	25.2%	-0.1 pp	151	LIGHT	Oakdale
CRS	25.1%	-0.2 pp	319	LIGHT	Cleveland
TNN	25.5%	+0.2 pp	290	LIGHT	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
IRD	25.1%	-0.2 pp	287	LIGHT	Hyattsville

Same-bench poles at LaSalle

Same-bench spread at LaSalle: Judge AMS runs 25.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 MTG · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 261 merits · 20.3% grant
IJ RW · Conroe Immigration Court · 261 merits · 9.2% grant
IJ EMK · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 262 merits · 22.9% grant
IJ SEG · Conroe Immigration Court · 263 merits · 14.8% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code AMS (25.3%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge AMS's 261-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ AMS at LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena); lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 261 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge AMS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 AMS'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.