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Immigration Judge EAK

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 846 merits decisions place Judge EAK among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 846 decisions FY2015–2025 (#271 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.3%
Asylum grant rate
57.7%
Asylum denial rate
846
Asylum decisions

Judge EAK in one line

Judge EAK's asylum grant rate is 42.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 846 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

42.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
846
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-6.0 pp
vs. national average
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"EAK" 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. 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 EAK 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)

42.3% 788th of 1696 higher than 908 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 48 8 40 16.7%
2016 40 6 34 15.0%
2017 72 11 61 15.3%
2018 88 27 61 30.7%
2019 118 25 93 21.2%
2020 111 39 72 35.1%
2021 207 121 86 58.5%
2022 61 35 26 57.4%
2023 101 86 15 85.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EAK's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 42.3% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge EAK are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
AKP 42.3% same 673 FULL Imperial
DCA 42.3% same 26 THIN Kansas City
SSL 42.3% same 26 THIN Salt Lake City
AJC 42.2% -0.1 pp 789 FULL San Francisco
LSA 42.2% -0.1 pp 301 LIGHT Sterling
DST 42.2% -0.1 pp 83 THIN El Paso

Same-bench poles at Baltimore

Same-bench spread at Baltimore: Judge EAK runs 42.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 JYB · San Francisco Immigration Court · 844 merits · 81.5% grant
  • IJ EAL · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 848 merits · 92.1% grant
  • IJ CMR · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 849 merits · 26.5% grant
  • IJ THS · Charlotte Immigration Court · 841 merits · 45.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code EAK: 846 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EAK at Baltimore Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 846. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 846 decisions FY2015–2025 (#271 of 1.7K).

Judge EAK's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 846, 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 EAK'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.