What is Judge CMW's grant rate?

Immigration Judge CMW has an overall grant rate of 68.4% across 832 decisions at the Honolulu Immigration Court. The denial rate is 31.6%.

Where does Judge CMW serve?

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

How many cases has Judge CMW decided?

Judge CMW has decided 832 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 569 grants and 263 denials.

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

No. Judge CMW's 68.4% 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 · Honolulu Immigration Court

Immigration Judge CMW

Name: Immigration Judge CMW - 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: Judge CMW's 68.4% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 832 decisions FY2015–2025 (#280 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

68.4%
Asylum grant rate: 31.6%
Asylum denial rate: 832
Asylum decisions

Judge CMW in one line

Judge CMW's asylum grant rate is 68.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 832 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

68.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 832
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +20.1 pp
vs. national average

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"CMW" 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

832merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted569(68%)Denied263(32%)

Statistical data only. Judge CMW's 68.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge CMW 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)

68.4% 228th of 1696 higher than 1,468 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	58	45	13	77.6%
2016	50	44	6	88.0%
2017	56	49	7	87.5%
2018	163	127	36	77.9%
2019	143	66	77	46.2%
2020	57	25	32	43.9%
2021	44	24	20	54.5%
2022	37	26	11	70.3%
2023	55	42	13	76.4%
2024	73	50	23	68.5%
2025	96	71	25	74.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CMW's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge CMW's 68.4% 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 CMW are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MOS	68.5%	+0.1 pp	54	THIN	Los Angeles - West
JRB	68.3%	-0.1 pp	369	LIGHT	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
AC2	68.3%	-0.1 pp	202	LIGHT	Los Angeles - West
MB	68.2%	-0.2 pp	522	FULL	San Antonio
AYG	68.2%	-0.2 pp	255	LIGHT	Hyattsville
KSL	68.1%	-0.3 pp	430	LIGHT	Concord

Same-bench poles at Honolulu

Same-bench spread at Honolulu: Judge CMW runs 68.4% - 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 MGK · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 833 merits · 64.9% grant
IJ DCW · Cleveland Immigration Court · 833 merits · 73.1% grant
IJ FPO · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 831 merits · 51.4% grant
IJ ARD · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · 829 merits · 73.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code CMW: 832 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge CMW's 832-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CMW at Honolulu Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 68.4%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 832 decisions FY2015–2025 (#280 of 1.7K).

Judge CMW's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 68.4%, 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 CMW'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.