Immigration Judge EM1

Case Insights: Judge EM1

Immigration Judge EM1 has issued 1,900 recorded decisions at the WAS in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 696 resulted in relief granted (36.6%), 8 were denied (0.4%), and 1,196 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (62.9%). That volume places Judge EM1 among a substantial docket at the WAS.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 36.2 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as denial-leaning relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.

The WAS itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge EM1's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for WAS lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.