Immigration judge · Oakdale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge BLH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 89.5% is Judge BLH's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 10.5% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 38 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

10.5%
Asylum grant rate
89.5%
Asylum denial rate
38
Asylum decisions

Judge BLH in one line

Judge BLH's asylum grant rate is 10.5% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 38 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

10.5%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
38
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-37.8 pp
vs. national average
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"BLH" 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. Judge BLH's 89.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge BLH 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)

10.5% 1550th of 1696 higher than 146 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 %
2019 1 1 0 100.0%
2022 6 1 5 16.7%
2023 3 2 1 66.7%
2025 28 0 28 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge BLH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge BLH's 10.5% 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 BLH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
AO 10.5% same 362 LIGHT Miami - Krome
TNN 10.6% +0.1 pp 1,016 FULL Los Angeles - West
JPE 10.6% +0.1 pp 263 LIGHT Elizabeth
PNM 10.4% -0.1 pp 77 THIN Laredo
BTP 10.6% +0.1 pp 66 THIN Elizabeth
RBM 10.3% -0.2 pp 97 THIN San Diego

Same-bench poles at Oakdale

Same-bench spread at Oakdale: Judge BLH runs 10.5% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code BLH (10.5%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ BLH at Oakdale Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 89.5%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 38 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge BLH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 89.5%, 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 BLH'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.