What is Judge EMZ's grant rate?

Immigration Judge EMZ has an overall grant rate of 74.6% across 173 decisions at the San Antonio Immigration Court. The denial rate is 25.4%.

Where does Judge EMZ serve?

Judge EMZ serves at the San Antonio Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge EMZ decided?

Judge EMZ has decided 173 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 129 grants and 44 denials.

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

No. Judge EMZ's 74.6% 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 EMZ

Name: Immigration Judge EMZ - 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 EMZ's 74.6% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 74.6% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

74.6%
Asylum grant rate: 25.4%
Asylum denial rate: 173
Asylum decisions

Judge EMZ in one line

Judge EMZ's asylum grant rate is 74.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 173 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

74.6%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 173
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: +26.3 pp
vs. national average

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"EMZ" 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

173merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted129(75%)Denied44(25%)

Statistical data only. Judge EMZ's 74.6% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge EMZ 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)

74.6% 156th of 1696 higher than 1,540 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	2	2	0	100.0%
2020	2	2	0	100.0%
2024	48	37	11	77.1%
2025	121	88	33	72.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EMZ's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge EMZ's 74.6% 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 EMZ are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
LES	74.6%	same	1,112	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
MMC	74.5%	-0.1 pp	196	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
BND	74.5%	-0.1 pp	55	THIN	Cleveland
SDC	74.7%	+0.1 pp	178	LIGHT	Portland
DNO	74.4%	-0.2 pp	465	LIGHT	New York - Varick Street
JJS	74.3%	-0.3 pp	421	LIGHT	Concord

Same-bench poles at San Antonio

Same-bench spread at San Antonio: Judge EMZ runs 74.6% - 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 MHH · San Diego Immigration Court · 173 merits · 54.9% grant
IJ MRJ · New Orleans Immigration Court · 174 merits · 51.7% grant
IJ CEL · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 172 merits · 25.0% grant
IJ SC2 · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 172 merits · 25.0% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge EMZ's 173-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EMZ at San Antonio Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 74.6%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 173 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EMZ's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 74.6%, 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 EMZ'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.