What is Judge BTR's grant rate?

Immigration Judge BTR has an overall grant rate of 57.5% across 854 decisions at the Otero Immigration Court. The denial rate is 42.5%.

Where does Judge BTR serve?

Judge BTR serves at the Otero Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge BTR decided?

Judge BTR has decided 854 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 491 grants and 363 denials.

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

No. Judge BTR's 57.5% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge BTR

Name: Immigration Judge BTR - 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: 854 merits decisions place Judge BTR among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 854 decisions FY2015–2025 (#263 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

57.5%
Asylum grant rate: 42.5%
Asylum denial rate: 854
Asylum decisions

Judge BTR in one line

Judge BTR's asylum grant rate is 57.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 854 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

57.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 854
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +9.2 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

854merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted491(57%)Denied363(43%)

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)

57.5% 443rd of 1696 higher than 1,253 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	156	53	103	34.0%
2020	24	12	12	50.0%
2021	80	45	35	56.2%
2022	264	191	73	72.3%
2023	177	143	34	80.8%
2024	87	29	58	33.3%
2025	66	18	48	27.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge BTR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge BTR's 57.5% 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
ACC	57.5%	same	855	FULL	Memphis
NAR	57.5%	same	466	LIGHT	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
MMN	57.5%	same	315	LIGHT	Newark
CTS	57.5%	same	292	LIGHT	New York - Broadway
JLN	57.5%	same	226	LIGHT	Concord
CRP	57.5%	same	40	THIN	Harlingen

Same-bench poles at Otero

Same-bench spread at Otero: Judge BTR runs 57.5% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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 GET · Boston Immigration Court · 854 merits · 50.0% grant
IJ CC1 · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 854 merits · 40.2% grant
IJ ACC · Memphis Immigration Court · 855 merits · 57.5% grant
IJ DDR · Memphis Immigration Court · 855 merits · 60.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code BTR: 854 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge BTR's 854-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ BTR at Otero Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 854. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 854 decisions FY2015–2025 (#263 of 1.7K).

Judge BTR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 854, 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.