What is Judge ASG's grant rate?

Immigration Judge ASG has an overall grant rate of 71.4% across 486 decisions at the Philadelphia Immigration Court. The denial rate is 28.6%.

Where does Judge ASG serve?

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

How many cases has Judge ASG decided?

Judge ASG has decided 486 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 347 grants and 139 denials.

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

No. Judge ASG's 71.4% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge ASG

Name: Immigration Judge ASG - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge ASG's 71.4% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 486 decisions FY2015–2025 (#557 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

71.4%
Asylum grant rate: 28.6%
Asylum denial rate: 486
Asylum decisions

Judge ASG in one line

Judge ASG's asylum grant rate is 71.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 486 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

71.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 486
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +23.1 pp
vs. national average

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"ASG" 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

486merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted347(71%)Denied139(29%)

Statistical data only. Judge ASG's 71.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge ASG 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)

71.4% 195th of 1696 higher than 1,501 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	2	1	1	50.0%
2018	2	2	0	100.0%
2019	137	81	56	59.1%
2020	91	58	33	63.7%
2021	40	35	5	87.5%
2022	103	80	23	77.7%
2023	111	90	21	81.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ASG's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge ASG's 71.4% 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 ASG are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MMF	71.5%	+0.1 pp	1,677	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
CYG	71.5%	+0.1 pp	1,581	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
KED	71.5%	+0.1 pp	1,021	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
DJS	71.6%	+0.2 pp	732	FULL	San Antonio
CTI	71.6%	+0.2 pp	465	LIGHT	Dallas
DMM	71.2%	-0.2 pp	552	FULL	New York - Broadway

Same-bench poles at Philadelphia

Same-bench spread at Philadelphia: Judge ASG runs 71.4% - 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 RHD · San Francisco Immigration Court · 486 merits · 54.9% grant
IJ JAD · Oakdale Immigration Court · 486 merits · 17.3% grant
IJ SME · Dallas Immigration Court · 487 merits · 55.0% grant
IJ ELT · Chicago Immigration Court · 488 merits · 70.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code ASG: 486 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge ASG's 486-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ASG at Philadelphia Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 71.4%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 486 decisions FY2015–2025 (#557 of 1.7K).

Judge ASG's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 71.4%, 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 ASG'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.