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Immigration Judge CHJ

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 CHJ's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 54.8% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

54.8%
Asylum grant rate
45.2%
Asylum denial rate
325
Asylum decisions

Judge CHJ in one line

Judge CHJ's asylum grant rate is 54.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 325 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

54.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
325
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+6.5 pp
vs. national average
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"CHJ" 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 CHJ 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)

54.8% 510th of 1696 higher than 1,186 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 %
2022 6 3 3 50.0%
2023 134 85 49 63.4%
2024 174 89 85 51.1%
2025 11 1 10 9.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CHJ's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge CHJ's 54.8% 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 CHJ are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
BV1 54.7% -0.1 pp 444 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
AFP 54.7% -0.1 pp 285 LIGHT El Paso
KSA 54.9% +0.1 pp 975 FULL Chicago
DDP 54.9% +0.1 pp 758 FULL Cleveland
RHD 54.9% +0.1 pp 486 LIGHT San Francisco
PMH 54.9% +0.1 pp 481 LIGHT Eloy

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge CHJ runs 54.8% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ LAW
91.2%
34 merits
Bench low
IJ NJP
7.1%
28 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 MKW · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 325 merits · 36.3% grant
  • IJ KFL · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 324 merits · 39.8% grant
  • IJ RKL · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex) · 326 merits · 18.7% grant
  • IJ MWN · San Francisco Immigration Court · 327 merits · 50.2% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge CHJ's 325-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CHJ at Annandale Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 325 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge CHJ'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 CHJ'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.