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Immigration Judge DCA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,350 merits decisions place Judge DCA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,350 decisions FY2015–2025 (#14 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

64.2%
Asylum grant rate
35.8%
Asylum denial rate
2,350
Asylum decisions

Judge DCA in one line

Judge DCA's asylum grant rate is 64.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,350 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

64.2%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
2,350
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+15.9 pp
vs. national average
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"DCA" 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 DCA's 64.2% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DCA 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)

64.2% 291st of 1696 higher than 1,405 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 41 21 20 51.2%
2016 37 7 30 18.9%
2017 98 32 66 32.7%
2018 166 66 100 39.8%
2019 202 41 161 20.3%
2020 213 83 130 39.0%
2021 183 92 91 50.3%
2022 98 72 26 73.5%
2023 368 335 33 91.0%
2024 378 325 53 86.0%
2025 566 435 131 76.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DCA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DCA's 64.2% 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 DCA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
CES 64.2% same 1,585 FULL Los Angeles - West
MEC 64.1% -0.1 pp 78 THIN Salt Lake City
AHO 64.0% -0.2 pp 408 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
BC2 64.0% -0.2 pp 86 THIN Harlingen
LML 64.5% +0.3 pp 121 LIGHT Annandale
LTF 63.9% -0.3 pp 377 LIGHT Philadelphia

Same-bench poles at Salt Lake City

Same-bench spread at Salt Lake City: Judge DCA runs 64.2% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ RLF
88.9%
45 merits
Bench low
IJ SSL
42.3%
26 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 GMP · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 2,338 merits · 32.2% grant
  • IJ DRD · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 2,321 merits · 26.5% grant
  • IJ ASL · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,267 merits · 81.5% grant
  • IJ DWT · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,448 merits · 75.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DCA: 2,350 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DCA's 2,350-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DCA at Salt Lake City Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,350. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,350 decisions FY2015–2025 (#14 of 1.7K).

Judge DCA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,350, 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 DCA'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.