Immigration judge · Conroe Immigration Court

Immigration Judge EMB

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 35 merits decisions make Judge EMB a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 45.7% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

45.7%
Asylum grant rate
54.3%
Asylum denial rate
35
Asylum decisions

Judge EMB in one line

Judge EMB's asylum grant rate is 45.7% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 35 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

45.7%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
35
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-2.6 pp
vs. national average
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"EMB" 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 EMB 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)

45.7% 715th of 1696 higher than 981 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 %
2020 25 9 16 36.0%
2021 10 7 3 70.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EMB'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 45.7% (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 EMB are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
KNL 45.7% same 766 FULL New York - Broadway
AKZ 45.7% same 534 FULL Fort Snelling
LFZ 45.7% same 70 THIN Oakdale
CMW 45.7% same 35 THIN Los Angeles - West
RR1 45.8% +0.1 pp 201 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
JDL 45.6% -0.1 pp 710 FULL Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Conroe

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 30 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge EMB is at 45.7%.

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EMB at Conroe Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 35. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 35 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EMB's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 35, 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 EMB'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.