Immigration judge · Oakdale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge BTR

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 BTR's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 53.7% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

53.7%
Asylum grant rate
46.3%
Asylum denial rate
190
Asylum decisions

Judge BTR in one line

Judge BTR's asylum grant rate is 53.7% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 190 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

53.7%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
190
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+5.4 pp
vs. national average
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"BTR" 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 BTR 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)

53.7% 531st of 1696 higher than 1,165 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 37 17 20 45.9%
2020 153 85 68 55.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge BTR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge BTR's 53.7% grant rate, an upper-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 BTR are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
CCJ 53.7% same 1,038 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
NRF 53.8% +0.1 pp 799 FULL San Francisco
GRN 53.8% +0.1 pp 143 LIGHT San Diego
CNM 53.8% +0.1 pp 26 THIN Laredo
DC1 53.9% +0.2 pp 1,023 FULL Newark
MHB 53.9% +0.2 pp 317 LIGHT Portland

Same-bench poles at Oakdale

Same-bench spread at Oakdale: Judge BTR runs 53.7% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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 GJW · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 190 merits · 20.0% grant
  • IJ RWV · Annandale Immigration Court · 191 merits · 54.5% grant
  • IJ KYA · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 189 merits · 40.2% grant
  • IJ JSF · Orlando Immigration Court · 191 merits · 70.2% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ BTR at Oakdale Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 190 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge BTR'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 BTR'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.