What is Judge DWC's grant rate?

Immigration Judge DWC has an overall grant rate of 54.3% across 1,973 decisions at the Baltimore Immigration Court. The denial rate is 45.7%.

Where does Judge DWC serve?

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

How many cases has Judge DWC decided?

Judge DWC has decided 1,973 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,071 grants and 902 denials.

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

No. Judge DWC's 54.3% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge DWC

Name: Immigration Judge DWC - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,973 merits decisions place Judge DWC among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,973 decisions FY2015–2025 (#35 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

54.3%
Asylum grant rate: 45.7%
Asylum denial rate: 1,973
Asylum decisions

Judge DWC in one line

Judge DWC's asylum grant rate is 54.3% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,973 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

54.3%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,973
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +6.0 pp
vs. national average

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"DWC" 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

1,973merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,071(54%)Denied902(46%)

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 DWC 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)

54.3% 520th of 1696 higher than 1,176 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	205	133	72	64.9%
2016	194	149	45	76.8%
2017	151	111	40	73.5%
2018	319	185	134	58.0%
2019	426	214	212	50.2%
2020	374	146	228	39.0%
2021	187	63	124	33.7%
2022	115	70	45	60.9%
2023	2	0	2	0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DWC's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DWC's 54.3% 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 DWC are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
AFN	54.3%	same	906	FULL	Santa Ana
PTP	54.3%	same	784	FULL	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
LDC	54.3%	same	151	LIGHT	Sterling
DIG	54.2%	-0.1 pp	612	FULL	Harlingen
AJS	54.4%	+0.1 pp	401	LIGHT	Newark
AVP	54.1%	-0.2 pp	1,104	FULL	New York - Broadway

Same-bench poles at Baltimore

Same-bench spread at Baltimore: Judge DWC runs 54.3% - 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 JML · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 1,979 merits · 30.5% grant
IJ MCL · Philadelphia Immigration Court · 1,961 merits · 50.6% grant
IJ PSS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,950 merits · 89.9% grant
IJ APL · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,941 merits · 38.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DWC: 1,973 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DWC's 1,973-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DWC at Baltimore Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,973. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,973 decisions FY2015–2025 (#35 of 1.7K).

Judge DWC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,973, 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 DWC'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.