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Immigration Judge DB

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 DB's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 29.1% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 117 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

29.1%
Asylum grant rate
70.9%
Asylum denial rate
117
Asylum decisions

Judge DB in one line

Judge DB's asylum grant rate is 29.1% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 117 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

29.1%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
117
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-19.2 pp
vs. national average
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"DB" 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 DB's 70.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DB 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)

29.1% 1136th of 1696 higher than 560 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 51 14 37 27.5%
2020 64 20 44 31.2%
2021 2 0 2 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DB's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DB's 29.1% 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 DB are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
ADL 29.1% same 851 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
LMS 29.1% same 592 FULL Sterling
JWD 29.1% same 368 LIGHT Tucson
BNR 29.1% same 196 LIGHT Miami
JLN 29.2% +0.1 pp 822 FULL San Francisco
JAL 29.2% +0.1 pp 130 LIGHT Charlotte

Same-bench poles at Adelanto

Same-bench spread at Adelanto: Judge DB runs 29.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

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

  • IJ BCM · Denver Immigration Court · 117 merits · 21.4% grant
  • IJ DHF · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 117 merits · 20.5% grant
  • IJ RFH · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 118 merits · 23.7% grant
  • IJ BLH · Laredo Immigration Court · 116 merits · 19.8% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code DB (29.1%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DB at Adelanto Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 117 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge DB'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 DB'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.