What is Judge ARK's grant rate?

Immigration Judge ARK has an overall grant rate of 59.2% across 1,587 decisions at the Denver Immigration Court. The denial rate is 40.8%.

Where does Judge ARK serve?

Judge ARK serves at the Denver Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge ARK decided?

Judge ARK has decided 1,587 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 940 grants and 647 denials.

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

No. Judge ARK's 59.2% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge ARK

Name: Immigration Judge ARK - 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: 1,587 merits decisions place Judge ARK among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,587 decisions FY2015–2025 (#72 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

59.2%
Asylum grant rate: 40.8%
Asylum denial rate: 1,587
Asylum decisions

Judge ARK in one line

Judge ARK's asylum grant rate is 59.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,587 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

59.2%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,587
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +10.9 pp
vs. national average

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"ARK" 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

1,587merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted940(59%)Denied647(41%)

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 ARK 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)

59.2% 389th of 1696 higher than 1,307 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 %
2017	30	18	12	60.0%
2018	75	25	50	33.3%
2019	233	63	170	27.0%
2020	137	64	73	46.7%
2021	79	58	21	73.4%
2022	159	143	16	89.9%
2023	237	167	70	70.5%
2024	245	147	98	60.0%
2025	392	255	137	65.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ARK's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge ARK's 59.2% 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 ARK are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
LAF	59.2%	same	956	FULL	Newark
RJR	59.3%	+0.1 pp	902	FULL	Chicago
ZAM	59.1%	-0.1 pp	1,371	FULL	Baltimore
BB2	59.0%	-0.2 pp	400	LIGHT	Orlando
THD	59.0%	-0.2 pp	312	LIGHT	Hartford
EGL	59.5%	+0.3 pp	674	FULL	Orlando

Same-bench poles at Denver

Same-bench spread at Denver: Judge ARK runs 59.2% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 CES · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 1,585 merits · 64.2% grant
IJ JBC · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,591 merits · 56.1% grant
IJ CYG · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,581 merits · 71.5% grant
IJ EM2 · New Orleans Immigration Court · 1,599 merits · 43.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code ARK: 1,587 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge ARK's 1,587-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ARK at Denver Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,587. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,587 decisions FY2015–2025 (#72 of 1.7K).

Judge ARK's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,587, 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 ARK'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.