Immigration judge · Philadelphia Immigration Court

Immigration Judge DCV

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 DCV's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 57.2% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

57.2%
Asylum grant rate
42.8%
Asylum denial rate
229
Asylum decisions

Judge DCV in one line

Judge DCV's asylum grant rate is 57.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 229 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

57.2%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
229
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+8.9 pp
vs. national average
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"DCV" 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 DCV 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)

57.2% 450th of 1696 higher than 1,246 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 %
2017 1 1 0 100.0%
2018 87 64 23 73.6%
2019 139 65 74 46.8%
2022 1 1 0 100.0%
2025 1 0 1 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DCV's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DCV's 57.2% 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 DCV are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
CMP 57.2% same 638 FULL San Francisco
JTL 57.2% same 418 LIGHT Harlingen
JME 57.3% +0.1 pp 1,738 FULL New York - Broadway
TSC 57.3% +0.1 pp 103 LIGHT Seattle
LD 57.1% -0.1 pp 517 FULL Baltimore
LML 57.1% -0.1 pp 198 LIGHT Annandale

Same-bench poles at Philadelphia

Same-bench spread at Philadelphia: Judge DCV runs 57.2% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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 JAW · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · 229 merits · 68.1% grant
  • IJ WTN · Baltimore Immigration Court · 229 merits · 40.6% grant
  • IJ LDC · Charlotte Immigration Court · 229 merits · 19.7% grant
  • IJ EFC · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex) · 228 merits · 50.4% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge DCV at Philadelphia Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DCV at Philadelphia Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 229 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge DCV'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 DCV'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.