Immigration judge · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex)

Immigration Judge DAG

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 92.2% is Judge DAG's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 7.8% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is mid-band at 319 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

7.8%
Asylum grant rate
92.2%
Asylum denial rate
319
Asylum decisions

Judge DAG in one line

Judge DAG's asylum grant rate is 7.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 319 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

7.8%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
319
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-40.5 pp
vs. national average
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"DAG" 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. Judge DAG's 92.2% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DAG 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)

7.8% 1598th of 1696 higher than 98 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DAG's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DAG's 7.8% grant rate, a lower-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 DAG are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
RW 7.8% same 791 FULL Houston - Smith Street
VMS 7.9% +0.1 pp 228 LIGHT Pearsall
EHM 7.9% +0.1 pp 177 LIGHT Adelanto
RML 7.9% +0.1 pp 38 THIN Port Isabel
JO 7.6% -0.2 pp 314 LIGHT Miami - Krome
CCS 7.6% -0.2 pp 157 LIGHT Laredo

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge DAG runs 7.8% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 CRS · Cleveland Immigration Court · 319 merits · 25.1% grant
  • IJ MGO · Phoenix Immigration Court · 319 merits · 36.1% grant
  • IJ JPI · Sterling Immigration Court · 319 merits · 45.1% grant
  • IJ VAB · Indianapolis Immigration Court · 318 merits · 28.9% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code DAG (7.8%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DAG at Annandale Immigration Court (Annex); asylum denial rate 92.2%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 319 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge DAG's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 92.2%, 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 DAG'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.