Immigration judge · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex)

Immigration Judge EDS

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge EDS's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 56.9% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

56.9%
Asylum grant rate
43.1%
Asylum denial rate
144
Asylum decisions

Judge EDS in one line

Judge EDS's asylum grant rate is 56.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 144 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

56.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
144
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+8.6 pp
vs. national average
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"EDS" 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 EDS 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)

56.9% 462nd of 1696 higher than 1,234 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EDS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge EDS's 56.9% 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 EDS are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
PKE 56.9% same 306 LIGHT Philadelphia
PJC 57.0% +0.1 pp 1,226 FULL Los Angeles - West
TSM 56.8% -0.1 pp 1,050 FULL New York - Varick Street
FMZ 57.0% +0.1 pp 975 FULL Annandale
SBY 56.8% -0.1 pp 687 FULL Sterling
DNM 56.8% -0.1 pp 579 FULL Annandale

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge EDS runs 56.9% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ NAM · Annandale Immigration Court · 144 merits · 35.4% grant
  • IJ JLM · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 144 merits · 9.0% grant
  • IJ GRN · San Diego Immigration Court · 143 merits · 53.8% grant
  • IJ JBY · Chelmsford Immigration Court · 145 merits · 51.0% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge EDS at Annandale Immigration Court (Annex). Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EDS at Annandale Immigration Court (Annex); lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 144 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EDS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 EDS'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.