What is Judge BHA's grant rate?

Immigration Judge BHA has an overall grant rate of 30.3% across 4,423 decisions at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court. The denial rate is 69.7%.

Where does Judge BHA serve?

Judge BHA serves at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge BHA decided?

Judge BHA has decided 4,423 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,338 grants and 3,085 denials.

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

No. Judge BHA's 69.7% 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 · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court

Immigration Judge BHA

Name: Immigration Judge BHA - 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: 4,423 merits decisions place Judge BHA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 4,423 decisions FY2015–2025 (#2 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

30.3%
Asylum grant rate: 69.7%
Asylum denial rate: 4,423
Asylum decisions

Judge BHA in one line

Judge BHA's asylum grant rate is 30.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 4,423 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

30.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 4,423
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -18.0 pp
vs. national average

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"BHA" 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

4,423merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,338(30%)Denied3,085(70%)

Statistical data only. Judge BHA's 69.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge BHA 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)

30.3% 1104th of 1696 higher than 592 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	75	13	62	17.3%
2016	653	148	505	22.7%
2017	637	178	459	27.9%
2018	849	233	616	27.4%
2019	721	171	550	23.7%
2020	451	120	331	26.6%
2021	24	10	14	41.7%
2022	163	46	117	28.2%
2023	232	124	108	53.4%
2024	198	132	66	66.7%
2025	420	163	257	38.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge BHA'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 30.3% (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 BHA are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CNP	30.3%	same	76	THIN	Sterling
RWD	30.4%	+0.1 pp	964	FULL	Memphis
MLE	30.4%	+0.1 pp	171	LIGHT	Miami
DJS	30.4%	+0.1 pp	79	THIN	Pearsall
RC1	30.2%	-0.1 pp	666	FULL	Annandale
JML	30.5%	+0.2 pp	1,979	FULL	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street

Same-bench poles at Houston - Smith Street

Same-bench spread at Houston - Smith Street: Judge BHA runs 30.3% - 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 BP1 · Seattle Immigration Court · 3,770 merits · 39.0% grant
IJ MWS · Hartford Immigration Court · 3,115 merits · 27.6% grant
IJ LLG · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 3,102 merits · 48.7% grant
IJ ICD · San Francisco Immigration Court · 2,711 merits · 90.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code BHA: 4,423 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge BHA's 4,423-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ BHA at Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 4,423. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 4,423 decisions FY2015–2025 (#2 of 1.7K).

Judge BHA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 4,423, 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 BHA'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.