What is Judge DNS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge DNS has an overall grant rate of 90.6% across 774 decisions at the Baltimore Immigration Court. The denial rate is 9.4%.

Where does Judge DNS serve?

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

How many cases has Judge DNS decided?

Judge DNS has decided 774 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 701 grants and 73 denials.

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

No. Judge DNS's 90.6% 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 DNS

Name: Immigration Judge DNS - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge DNS's 90.6% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 774 decisions FY2015–2025 (#311 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

90.6%
Asylum grant rate: 9.4%
Asylum denial rate: 774
Asylum decisions

Judge DNS in one line

Judge DNS's asylum grant rate is 90.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 774 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

90.6%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 774
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +42.3 pp
vs. national average

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"DNS" 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

774merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted701(91%)Denied73(9%)

Statistical data only. Judge DNS's 90.6% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DNS 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)

90.6% 25th of 1696 higher than 1,671 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	53	51	2	96.2%
2016	112	110	2	98.2%
2017	167	153	14	91.6%
2018	325	298	27	91.7%
2019	117	89	28	76.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DNS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DNS's 90.6% 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 DNS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
FGL	90.6%	same	2,218	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
ICD	90.5%	-0.1 pp	2,711	HEAVY	San Francisco
KSL	90.7%	+0.1 pp	75	THIN	San Francisco
VGU	90.4%	-0.2 pp	2,121	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
LLR	90.3%	-0.3 pp	547	FULL	San Francisco
JLV	90.9%	+0.3 pp	230	LIGHT	San Francisco

Same-bench poles at Baltimore

Same-bench spread at Baltimore: Judge DNS runs 90.6% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 LCF · San Francisco Immigration Court · 772 merits · 77.5% grant
IJ LWA · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 770 merits · 29.9% grant
IJ LIH · Miami Immigration Court · 767 merits · 56.7% grant
IJ MS1 · Las Vegas Immigration Court · 781 merits · 13.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DNS: 774 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DNS's 774-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DNS at Baltimore Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 90.6%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 774 decisions FY2015–2025 (#311 of 1.7K).

Judge DNS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 90.6%, 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 DNS'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.