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Immigration Judge CNF

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 CNF's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 53.0% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

53.0%
Asylum grant rate
47.0%
Asylum denial rate
100
Asylum decisions

Judge CNF in one line

Judge CNF's asylum grant rate is 53.0% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 100 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

53.0%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
100
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
+4.7 pp
vs. national average
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"CNF" 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 CNF 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)

53% 548th of 1696 higher than 1,148 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 %
2018 1 0 1 0.0%
2021 8 0 8 0.0%
2022 18 7 11 38.9%
2023 29 16 13 55.2%
2024 15 10 5 66.7%
2025 29 20 9 69.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CNF's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge CNF's 53.0% 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 CNF are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
HYC 53.0% same 364 LIGHT Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
EM1 53.0% same 279 LIGHT Annandale
RCP 53.0% same 268 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
NIF 53.0% same 217 LIGHT Chelmsford
BV1 53.0% same 168 LIGHT Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
HUL 53.0% same 83 THIN Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at Seattle

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 17 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge CNF is at 53.0%.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ SBM · El Paso Immigration Court · 100 merits · 46.0% grant
  • IJ NVP · Elizabeth Immigration Court · 100 merits · 44.0% grant
  • IJ GEP · Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · 100 merits · 40.0% grant
  • IJ MAU · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 101 merits · 53.5% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CNF at Seattle Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 100 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge CNF'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 CNF'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.