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Immigration Judge DC1

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,023 merits decisions place Judge DC1 among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,023 decisions FY2015–2025 (#182 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

53.9%
Asylum grant rate
46.1%
Asylum denial rate
1,023
Asylum decisions

Judge DC1 in one line

Judge DC1's asylum grant rate is 53.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,023 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

53.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
1,023
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+5.6 pp
vs. national average
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"DC1" 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 DC1 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)

53.9% 526th of 1696 higher than 1,170 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 1 1 0 100.0%
2017 8 8 0 100.0%
2018 51 39 12 76.5%
2019 146 53 93 36.3%
2020 138 60 78 43.5%
2021 80 26 54 32.5%
2022 49 21 28 42.9%
2023 177 106 71 59.9%
2024 77 62 15 80.5%
2025 296 175 121 59.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DC1's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DC1's 53.9% 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 DC1 are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MHB 53.9% same 317 LIGHT Portland
NRF 53.8% -0.1 pp 799 FULL San Francisco
RAN 54.0% +0.1 pp 743 FULL Hyattsville
GRN 53.8% -0.1 pp 143 LIGHT San Diego
CNM 53.8% -0.1 pp 26 THIN Laredo
CCJ 53.7% -0.2 pp 1,038 FULL New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Newark

Same-bench spread at Newark: Judge DC1 runs 53.9% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ AJR
86.9%
1,517 merits
Bench low
IJ MNS
10.8%
452 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 KED · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,021 merits · 71.5% grant
  • IJ JER · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 1,017 merits · 31.1% grant
  • IJ TNN · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 1,016 merits · 10.6% grant
  • IJ KAW · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 1,014 merits · 32.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DC1: 1,023 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DC1's 1,023-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DC1 at Newark Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,023. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,023 decisions FY2015–2025 (#182 of 1.7K).

Judge DC1's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,023, 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 DC1'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.