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Immigration Judge DRD

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,321 merits decisions place Judge DRD among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,321 decisions FY2015–2025 (#16 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

26.5%
Asylum grant rate
73.5%
Asylum denial rate
2,321
Asylum decisions

Judge DRD in one line

Judge DRD's asylum grant rate is 26.5% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 2,321 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

26.5%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
2,321
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-21.8 pp
vs. national average
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"DRD" 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 DRD's 73.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DRD 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)

26.5% 1201st of 1696 higher than 495 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 7 0 7 0.0%
2021 19 2 17 10.5%
2022 562 108 454 19.2%
2023 750 214 536 28.5%
2024 727 207 520 28.5%
2025 256 85 171 33.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DRD's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DRD's 26.5% grant rate, a lower-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 DRD are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
CMR 26.5% same 849 FULL Houston - Smith Street
EAK 26.5% same 431 LIGHT Hyattsville
JGC 26.5% same 34 THIN Dallas
JDP 26.4% -0.1 pp 368 LIGHT Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
MBT 26.6% +0.1 pp 331 LIGHT Pearsall
SAS 26.3% -0.2 pp 636 FULL Miami - Krome

Same-bench poles at New York - Varick Street

Same-bench spread at New York - Varick Street: Judge DRD runs 26.5% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ SR1
86.0%
292 merits
Bench low
IJ MMT
19.9%
146 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 DCA · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 2,350 merits · 64.2% grant
  • IJ ASL · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,267 merits · 81.5% grant
  • IJ FGL · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,218 merits · 90.6% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DRD: 2,321 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DRD's 2,321-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DRD at New York - Varick Street Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,321. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,321 decisions FY2015–2025 (#16 of 1.7K).

Judge DRD's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,321, 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 DRD'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.