What is Judge ATL's grant rate?

Immigration Judge ATL has an overall grant rate of 22.8% across 817 decisions at the Adelanto Immigration Court. The denial rate is 77.2%.

Where does Judge ATL serve?

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

How many cases has Judge ATL decided?

Judge ATL has decided 817 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 186 grants and 631 denials.

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

No. Judge ATL's 77.2% 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 ATL

Name: Immigration Judge ATL - 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: 817 merits decisions place Judge ATL among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 817 decisions FY2015–2025 (#289 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

22.8%
Asylum grant rate: 77.2%
Asylum denial rate: 817
Asylum decisions

Judge ATL in one line

Judge ATL's asylum grant rate is 22.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 817 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

22.8%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate: 817
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -25.5 pp
vs. national average

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"ATL" 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

817merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted186(23%)Denied631(77%)

Statistical data only. Judge ATL's 77.2% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge ATL 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)

22.8% 1298th of 1696 higher than 398 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	111	16	95	14.4%
2016	108	13	95	12.0%
2017	131	23	108	17.6%
2018	152	26	126	17.1%
2019	176	67	109	38.1%
2020	138	41	97	29.7%
2021	1	0	1	0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ATL's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge ATL's 22.8% 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 ATL are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
KC	22.8%	same	1,281	FULL	Orlando
SM1	22.9%	+0.1 pp	873	FULL	Fort Snelling
EMK	22.9%	+0.1 pp	262	LIGHT	Houston - Smith Street
DBC	22.7%	-0.1 pp	154	LIGHT	LaSalle
JN	22.7%	-0.1 pp	75	THIN	El Paso Service Processing Center
RJ1	23.0%	+0.2 pp	904	FULL	Houston - Smith Street

Same-bench poles at Adelanto

Same-bench spread at Adelanto: Judge ATL runs 22.8% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 VSC · Charlotte Immigration Court · 815 merits · 20.4% grant
IJ JNP · Sterling Immigration Court · 819 merits · 38.1% grant
IJ JA1 · San Antonio Immigration Court · 821 merits · 44.0% grant
IJ JLN · San Francisco Immigration Court · 822 merits · 29.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code ATL: 817 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge ATL's 817-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ATL at Adelanto Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 817. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 817 decisions FY2015–2025 (#289 of 1.7K).

Judge ATL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 817, 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 ATL'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.