What is Judge CEM's grant rate?

Immigration Judge CEM has an overall grant rate of 78.7% across 884 decisions at the Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court. The denial rate is 21.3%.

Where does Judge CEM serve?

Judge CEM serves at the Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge CEM decided?

Judge CEM has decided 884 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 696 grants and 188 denials.

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

No. Judge CEM's 78.7% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration judge · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court

Immigration Judge CEM

Name: Immigration Judge CEM - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge CEM's 78.7% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 884 decisions FY2015–2025 (#248 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

78.7%
Asylum grant rate: 21.3%
Asylum denial rate: 884
Asylum decisions

Judge CEM in one line

Judge CEM's asylum grant rate is 78.7% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 884 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

78.7%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 884
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +30.4 pp
vs. national average

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"CEM" 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

884merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted696(79%)Denied188(21%)

Statistical data only. Judge CEM's 78.7% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge CEM 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)

78.7% 121st of 1696 higher than 1,575 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 %
2020	89	42	47	47.2%
2021	23	21	2	91.3%
2022	198	153	45	77.3%
2023	252	214	38	84.9%
2024	212	187	25	88.2%
2025	110	79	31	71.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CEM's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge CEM's 78.7% 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 CEM are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
STT	78.7%	same	887	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
EJC	78.8%	+0.1 pp	52	THIN	San Francisco
VKB	78.5%	-0.2 pp	909	FULL	Sacramento
RDW	78.5%	-0.2 pp	181	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
EPD	79.0%	+0.3 pp	2,213	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
CSG	78.4%	-0.3 pp	2,016	HEAVY	San Francisco

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard

Same-bench spread at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard: Judge CEM runs 78.7% - 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 GAR · Chicago Immigration Court · 886 merits · 82.3% grant
IJ STT · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 887 merits · 78.7% grant
IJ LIA · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 879 merits · 86.7% grant
IJ THW · Newark Immigration Court · 879 merits · 38.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code CEM: 884 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge CEM's 884-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CEM at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 78.7%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 884 decisions FY2015–2025 (#248 of 1.7K).

Judge CEM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 78.7%, 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 CEM'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.