What is Judge EKN's grant rate?

Immigration Judge EKN has an overall grant rate of 70.9% across 265 decisions at the Chicago Immigration Court. The denial rate is 29.1%.

Where does Judge EKN serve?

Judge EKN serves at the Chicago Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge EKN decided?

Judge EKN has decided 265 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 188 grants and 77 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge EKN's 70.9% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge EKN

Name: Immigration Judge EKN - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge EKN's 70.9% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 70.9% (above the 48.3% national average).

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Data updated 2026-09-05

70.9%
Asylum grant rate: 29.1%
Asylum denial rate: 265
Asylum decisions

Judge EKN in one line

Judge EKN's asylum grant rate is 70.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 265 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

70.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 265
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: +22.6 pp
vs. national average

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"EKN" 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

265merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted188(71%)Denied77(29%)

Statistical data only. Judge EKN's 70.9% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge EKN 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)

70.9% 200th of 1696 higher than 1,496 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	12	2	10	16.7%
2019	40	22	18	55.0%
2020	95	68	27	71.6%
2021	18	15	3	83.3%
2022	64	54	10	84.4%
2023	36	27	9	75.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EKN's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge EKN's 70.9% 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 EKN are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
NES	70.9%	same	165	LIGHT	Houston - S. Gessner Road
VAW	71.0%	+0.1 pp	1,898	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
TSB	70.8%	-0.1 pp	891	FULL	New York - Broadway
AMW	70.8%	-0.1 pp	185	LIGHT	Annandale
AC2	71.1%	+0.2 pp	97	THIN	Newark
DMM	71.2%	+0.3 pp	552	FULL	New York - Broadway

Same-bench poles at Chicago

Same-bench spread at Chicago: Judge EKN runs 70.9% - 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 WMM · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 265 merits · 77.7% grant
IJ ARP · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex) · 265 merits · 55.5% grant
IJ HRP · Annandale Immigration Court · 265 merits · 47.5% grant
IJ JPJ · Eloy Immigration Court · 266 merits · 58.3% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge EKN's 265-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EKN at Chicago Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 70.9%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 265 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EKN's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 70.9%, 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 EKN'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.