What is Judge CAH's grant rate?

Immigration Judge CAH has an overall grant rate of 46.5% across 878 decisions at the San Antonio Immigration Court. The denial rate is 53.5%.

Where does Judge CAH serve?

Judge CAH serves at the San Antonio Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge CAH decided?

Judge CAH has decided 878 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 408 grants and 470 denials.

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

No. Judge CAH's 46.5% 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 CAH

Name: Immigration Judge CAH - 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: 878 merits decisions place Judge CAH among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 878 decisions FY2015–2025 (#251 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

46.5%
Asylum grant rate: 53.5%
Asylum denial rate: 878
Asylum decisions

Judge CAH in one line

Judge CAH's asylum grant rate is 46.5% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 878 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

46.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 878
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -1.8 pp
vs. national average

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"CAH" 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

878merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted408(46%)Denied470(54%)

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 CAH 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)

46.5% 689th of 1696 higher than 1,007 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	3	0	3	0.0%
2016	5	4	1	80.0%
2017	26	14	12	53.8%
2018	90	26	64	28.9%
2019	161	63	98	39.1%
2020	54	27	27	50.0%
2021	42	26	16	61.9%
2022	79	40	39	50.6%
2023	98	51	47	52.0%
2024	144	83	61	57.6%
2025	176	74	102	42.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CAH'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 46.5% (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 CAH are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
GMT	46.5%	same	114	LIGHT	Sacramento
PV	46.4%	-0.1 pp	1,005	FULL	Hartford
DCV	46.4%	-0.1 pp	28	THIN	Elizabeth
DRH	46.7%	+0.2 pp	943	FULL	Miami
LJF	46.7%	+0.2 pp	856	FULL	Santa Ana
ANW	46.7%	+0.2 pp	435	LIGHT	Hyattsville

Same-bench poles at San Antonio

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 15 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge CAH is at 46.5%.

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 THW · Newark Immigration Court · 879 merits · 38.0% grant
IJ LIA · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 879 merits · 86.7% grant
IJ GEC · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 876 merits · 41.2% grant
IJ DAJ · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · 876 merits · 40.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code CAH: 878 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge CAH's 878-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CAH at San Antonio Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 878. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 878 decisions FY2015–2025 (#251 of 1.7K).

Judge CAH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 878, 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 CAH'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.