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Immigration Judge BCM

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 BCM's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 42.1% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.1%
Asylum grant rate
57.9%
Asylum denial rate
423
Asylum decisions

Judge BCM in one line

Judge BCM's asylum grant rate is 42.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 423 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

42.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
423
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-6.2 pp
vs. national average
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"BCM" 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 BCM 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)

42.1% 794th of 1696 higher than 902 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 %
2023 71 38 33 53.5%
2024 4 4 0 100.0%
2025 348 136 212 39.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge BCM'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 42.1% (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 BCM are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JFW 42.1% same 648 FULL Seattle
JBL 42.0% -0.1 pp 2,506 HEAVY New Orleans
AJC 42.2% +0.1 pp 789 FULL San Francisco
LSA 42.2% +0.1 pp 301 LIGHT Sterling
SAR 42.0% -0.1 pp 226 LIGHT Phoenix
DST 42.2% +0.1 pp 83 THIN El Paso

Same-bench poles at Sterling

Same-bench spread at Sterling: Judge BCM runs 42.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 LFZ · El Paso Immigration Court · 423 merits · 61.0% grant
  • IJ KQG · Elizabeth Immigration Court · 424 merits · 15.3% grant
  • IJ FAC · Concord Immigration Court · 424 merits · 75.7% grant
  • IJ ROS · Orlando Immigration Court · 421 merits · 32.1% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ BCM at Sterling Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 423 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge BCM'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 BCM'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.