Immigration judge · Annandale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge EFC

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 EFC's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 50.3% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

50.3%
Asylum grant rate
49.7%
Asylum denial rate
352
Asylum decisions

Judge EFC in one line

Judge EFC's asylum grant rate is 50.3% (mid-band grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 352 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

50.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
352
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+2.0 pp
vs. national average
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"EFC" 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 EFC 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)

50.3% 603rd of 1696 higher than 1,093 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 %
2019 125 50 75 40.0%
2020 13 4 9 30.8%
2021 3 1 2 33.3%
2022 35 17 18 48.6%
2023 87 52 35 59.8%
2024 76 47 29 61.8%
2025 13 6 7 46.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EFC'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 50.3% (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 EFC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
DM 50.2% -0.1 pp 1,044 FULL Hartford
MWN 50.2% -0.1 pp 327 LIGHT San Francisco
CFP 50.2% -0.1 pp 307 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
SMW 50.4% +0.1 pp 458 LIGHT Hyattsville
EFC 50.4% +0.1 pp 228 LIGHT Annandale
RLP 50.1% -0.2 pp 681 FULL Boston

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 60 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge EFC is at 50.3%.

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 DMP · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · 353 merits · 46.2% grant
  • IJ PKB · Cleveland Immigration Court · 353 merits · 56.7% grant
  • IJ JDO · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 351 merits · 43.0% grant
  • IJ RDC · Orlando Immigration Court · 353 merits · 65.4% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EFC at Annandale Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 352 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EFC'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 EFC'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.