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Immigration Judge DWT

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,448 merits decisions place Judge DWT among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,448 decisions FY2015–2025 (#13 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

75.3%
Asylum grant rate
24.7%
Asylum denial rate
2,448
Asylum decisions

Judge DWT in one line

Judge DWT's asylum grant rate is 75.3% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,448 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

75.3%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
2,448
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+27.0 pp
vs. national average
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"DWT" 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 DWT's 75.3% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DWT 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)

75.3% 149th of 1696 higher than 1,547 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 2 0 2 0.0%
2016 4 2 2 50.0%
2017 74 57 17 77.0%
2018 384 291 93 75.8%
2019 419 283 136 67.5%
2020 255 185 70 72.5%
2021 48 37 11 77.1%
2022 243 219 24 90.1%
2023 288 257 31 89.2%
2024 277 244 33 88.1%
2025 454 269 185 59.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DWT's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DWT's 75.3% 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 DWT are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
RKP 75.2% -0.1 pp 965 FULL San Francisco
VSV 75.2% -0.1 pp 638 FULL Los Angeles - West
JTH 75.2% -0.1 pp 315 LIGHT Annandale
MGK 75.1% -0.2 pp 698 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
MEN 75.7% +0.4 pp 930 FULL New York - Broadway
JMB 75.7% +0.4 pp 645 FULL Annandale

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge DWT runs 75.3% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ JB
97.2%
607 merits
Bench low
IJ JLM
9.0%
144 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 JBL · New Orleans Immigration Court · 2,506 merits · 42.0% grant
  • IJ FAS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 2,545 merits · 40.4% grant
  • IJ DCA · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 2,350 merits · 64.2% grant
  • IJ GMP · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 2,338 merits · 32.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DWT: 2,448 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DWT's 2,448-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DWT at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,448. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,448 decisions FY2015–2025 (#13 of 1.7K).

Judge DWT's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,448, 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 DWT'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.