Immigration judge · Otay Mesa Immigration Court

Immigration Judge EHR

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 EHR's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 35.0% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

35.0%
Asylum grant rate
65.0%
Asylum denial rate
300
Asylum decisions

Judge EHR in one line

Judge EHR's asylum grant rate is 35.0% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 300 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

35.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
300
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-13.3 pp
vs. national average
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"EHR" 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 EHR's 65.0% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge EHR 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)

35% 985th of 1696 higher than 711 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 1 0 1 0.0%
2022 4 3 1 75.0%
2023 56 19 37 33.9%
2024 96 26 70 27.1%
2025 143 57 86 39.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EHR'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 35.0% (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 EHR are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
RDB 35.0% same 648 FULL Newark
LSA 35.0% same 60 THIN Annandale
SSL 35.0% same 40 THIN Conroe
ASH 35.1% +0.1 pp 188 LIGHT Elizabeth
JTL 35.1% +0.1 pp 37 THIN Seattle
SGA 35.2% +0.2 pp 1,746 FULL Miami

Same-bench poles at Otay Mesa

Same-bench spread at Otay Mesa: Judge EHR runs 35.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 JGC · Port Isabel Immigration Court · 300 merits · 5.7% grant
  • IJ LSA · Sterling Immigration Court · 301 merits · 42.2% grant
  • IJ CHR · San Diego Immigration Court · 301 merits · 63.8% grant
  • IJ CJL · San Francisco Immigration Court · 298 merits · 85.2% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EHR at Otay Mesa Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 300 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EHR'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 EHR'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.