What is Judge DJS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge DJS has an overall grant rate of 61.9% across 134 decisions at the Laredo Immigration Court. The denial rate is 38.1%.

Where does Judge DJS serve?

Judge DJS serves at the Laredo Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge DJS decided?

Judge DJS has decided 134 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 83 grants and 51 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge DJS's 61.9% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge DJS

Name: Immigration Judge DJS - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge DJS's 61.9% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 61.9% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

61.9%
Asylum grant rate: 38.1%
Asylum denial rate: 134
Asylum decisions

Judge DJS in one line

Judge DJS's asylum grant rate is 61.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 134 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

61.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 134
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: +13.6 pp
vs. national average

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"DJS" 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

134merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted83(62%)Denied51(38%)

Statistical data only. Judge DJS's 61.9% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DJS 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)

61.9% 341st of 1696 higher than 1,355 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 %
2020	77	37	40	48.1%
2021	52	42	10	80.8%
2022	5	4	1	80.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DJS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DJS's 61.9% 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 DJS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
AMN	61.9%	same	948	FULL	Las Vegas
TAL	62.0%	+0.1 pp	658	FULL	New York - Broadway
ANS	62.0%	+0.1 pp	279	LIGHT	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
VPG	61.8%	-0.1 pp	76	THIN	Conroe
DCV	62.1%	+0.2 pp	694	FULL	Hyattsville
DED	62.1%	+0.2 pp	551	FULL	New York - Broadway

Same-bench poles at Laredo

Same-bench spread at Laredo: Judge DJS runs 61.9% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

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

IJ JAH · Chelmsford Immigration Court · 134 merits · 59.7% grant
IJ JSB · Annandale Immigration Court · 134 merits · 82.8% grant
IJ WKH · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 134 merits · 26.1% grant
IJ DDE · Portland Immigration Court · 135 merits · 40.7% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge DJS's 134-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DJS at Laredo Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 61.9%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 134 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge DJS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 61.9%, 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 DJS'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.