What is Judge CST's grant rate?

Immigration Judge CST has an overall grant rate of 41.4% across 840 decisions at the Annandale Immigration Court. The denial rate is 58.6%.

Where does Judge CST serve?

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

How many cases has Judge CST decided?

Judge CST has decided 840 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 348 grants and 492 denials.

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

No. Judge CST's 41.4% 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 CST

Name: Immigration Judge CST - 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: 840 merits decisions place Judge CST among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 840 decisions FY2015–2025 (#274 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

41.4%
Asylum grant rate: 58.6%
Asylum denial rate: 840
Asylum decisions

Judge CST in one line

Judge CST's asylum grant rate is 41.4% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 840 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

41.4%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 840
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -6.9 pp
vs. national average

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"CST" 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

840merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted348(41%)Denied492(59%)

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 CST 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)

41.4% 812th of 1696 higher than 884 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 %
2016	5	0	5	0.0%
2018	2	0	2	0.0%
2019	296	107	189	36.1%
2020	175	58	117	33.1%
2021	23	15	8	65.2%
2022	91	37	54	40.7%
2023	124	67	57	54.0%
2024	92	44	48	47.8%
2025	32	20	12	62.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge CST'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 41.4% (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 CST are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
LDT	41.4%	same	1,095	FULL	Houston - Greenspoint Park
LCA	41.4%	same	382	LIGHT	Annandale
EEH	41.5%	+0.1 pp	429	LIGHT	El Paso
JAL	41.5%	+0.1 pp	94	THIN	Boston
CGW	41.3%	-0.1 pp	75	THIN	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
GEC	41.2%	-0.2 pp	876	FULL	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge CST runs 41.4% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 JMF · Boston Immigration Court · 840 merits · 37.1% grant
IJ THS · Charlotte Immigration Court · 841 merits · 45.4% grant
IJ RHC · Charlotte Immigration Court · 836 merits · 37.4% grant
IJ JYB · San Francisco Immigration Court · 844 merits · 81.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code CST: 840 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge CST's 840-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ CST at Annandale Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 840. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 840 decisions FY2015–2025 (#274 of 1.7K).

Judge CST's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 840, 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 CST'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.