What is Judge ASL's grant rate?

Immigration Judge ASL has an overall grant rate of 81.5% across 2,267 decisions at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. The denial rate is 18.5%.

Where does Judge ASL serve?

Judge ASL serves at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge ASL decided?

Judge ASL has decided 2,267 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,848 grants and 419 denials.

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

No. Judge ASL's 81.5% 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 ASL

Name: Immigration Judge ASL - 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: 2,267 merits decisions place Judge ASL among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,267 decisions FY2015–2025 (#17 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

81.5%
Asylum grant rate: 18.5%
Asylum denial rate: 2,267
Asylum decisions

Judge ASL in one line

Judge ASL's asylum grant rate is 81.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,267 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

81.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 2,267
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +33.2 pp
vs. national average

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"ASL" 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

2,267merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,848(82%)Denied419(18%)

Statistical data only. Judge ASL's 81.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge ASL 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)

81.5% 98th of 1696 higher than 1,598 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	149	129	20	86.6%
2016	169	155	14	91.7%
2017	158	122	36	77.2%
2018	223	152	71	68.2%
2019	290	210	80	72.4%
2020	188	144	44	76.6%
2021	62	49	13	79.0%
2022	277	247	30	89.2%
2023	211	176	35	83.4%
2024	222	184	38	82.9%
2025	318	280	38	88.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ASL's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge ASL's 81.5% 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 ASL are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
JYB	81.5%	same	844	FULL	San Francisco
JCS	81.4%	-0.1 pp	2,091	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
WDN	81.8%	+0.3 pp	798	FULL	Sacramento
JJJ	81.8%	+0.3 pp	532	FULL	San Francisco
PJE	81.2%	-0.3 pp	64	THIN	San Juan
CEL	81.2%	-0.3 pp	32	THIN	Sterling

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge ASL runs 81.5% - 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 DRD · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 2,321 merits · 26.5% grant
IJ GMP · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 2,338 merits · 32.2% grant
IJ PTW · Baltimore Immigration Court · 2,194 merits · 39.2% grant
IJ PMT · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 2,193 merits · 57.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code ASL: 2,267 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge ASL's 2,267-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ASL at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,267. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,267 decisions FY2015–2025 (#17 of 1.7K).

Judge ASL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,267, 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 ASL'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.