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Immigration Judge BAR

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 BAR's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 48.9% (roughly in line with the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

48.9%
Asylum grant rate
51.1%
Asylum denial rate
417
Asylum decisions

Judge BAR in one line

Judge BAR's asylum grant rate is 48.9% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 417 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

48.9%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
417
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+0.6 pp
vs. national average
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"BAR" 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.

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 BAR 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)

48.9% 639th of 1696 higher than 1,057 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 11 3 8 27.3%
2016 2 2 0 100.0%
2017 10 5 5 50.0%
2018 5 0 5 0.0%
2019 52 13 39 25.0%
2020 88 12 76 13.6%
2021 29 20 9 69.0%
2022 74 51 23 68.9%
2023 54 35 19 64.8%
2024 65 45 20 69.2%
2025 27 18 9 66.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge BAR's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 48.9% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge BAR are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
KPG 48.9% same 687 FULL New Orleans
KJB 48.8% -0.1 pp 600 FULL Sterling
JLK 48.8% -0.1 pp 510 FULL Sterling
LSJ 49.0% +0.1 pp 288 LIGHT Boston
RDV 49.0% +0.1 pp 239 LIGHT Chicago
LLG 48.7% -0.2 pp 3,102 HEAVY New York - Varick Street

Same-bench poles at San Diego

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 23 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge BAR is at 48.9%.

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 AAT · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 417 merits · 24.5% grant
  • IJ CAE · Chicago Immigration Court · 417 merits · 73.4% grant
  • IJ WSL · Oakdale Immigration Court · 417 merits · 12.5% grant
  • IJ AED · Sacramento Immigration Court · 417 merits · 85.6% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge BAR at San Diego Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ BAR at San Diego Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 417 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge BAR'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 BAR'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.