Immigration judge · Elizabeth Immigration Court

Immigration Judge DHF

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 28 merits decisions make Judge DHF a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 32.1% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

32.1%
Asylum grant rate
67.9%
Asylum denial rate
28
Asylum decisions

Judge DHF in one line

Judge DHF's asylum grant rate is 32.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 28 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

32.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
28
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-16.2 pp
vs. national average
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"DHF" 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 DHF's 67.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DHF 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)

32.1% 1057th of 1696 higher than 639 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 %
2019 13 6 7 46.2%
2020 15 3 12 20.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DHF's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 32.1% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge DHF are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
KAW 32.1% same 1,014 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
CBA 32.1% same 448 LIGHT Conroe
ROS 32.1% same 421 LIGHT Orlando
GET 32.1% same 28 THIN Los Angeles - West
GMP 32.2% +0.1 pp 2,338 HEAVY Houston - Smith Street
TWJ 32.0% -0.1 pp 175 LIGHT Cleveland

Same-bench poles at Elizabeth

Same-bench spread at Elizabeth: Judge DHF runs 32.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DHF at Elizabeth Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 28. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 28 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge DHF's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 28, 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 DHF'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.