What is Judge EPD's grant rate?

Immigration Judge EPD has an overall grant rate of 79.0% across 2,213 decisions at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. The denial rate is 21.0%.

Where does Judge EPD serve?

Judge EPD serves at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge EPD decided?

Judge EPD has decided 2,213 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,749 grants and 464 denials.

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

No. Judge EPD's 79.0% 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 · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

Immigration Judge EPD

Name: Immigration Judge EPD - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,213 merits decisions place Judge EPD among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,213 decisions FY2015–2025 (#19 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

79.0%
Asylum grant rate: 21.0%
Asylum denial rate: 2,213
Asylum decisions

Judge EPD in one line

Judge EPD's asylum grant rate is 79.0% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,213 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

79.0%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 2,213
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +30.7 pp
vs. national average

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"EPD" 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

2,213merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,749(79%)Denied464(21%)

Statistical data only. Judge EPD's 79.0% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge EPD 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)

79% 118th of 1696 higher than 1,578 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 %
2016	97	79	18	81.4%
2017	174	153	21	87.9%
2018	312	210	102	67.3%
2019	349	244	105	69.9%
2020	181	110	71	60.8%
2021	39	33	6	84.6%
2022	268	237	31	88.4%
2023	217	195	22	89.9%
2024	209	187	22	89.5%
2025	367	301	66	82.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EPD's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge EPD's 79.0% 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 EPD are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CSE	79.0%	same	1,255	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
MEN	79.0%	same	652	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
TNN	79.0%	same	510	FULL	Dallas
PDO	79.0%	same	390	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
EJC	78.8%	-0.2 pp	52	THIN	San Francisco
STT	78.7%	-0.3 pp	887	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge EPD runs 79.0% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

IJ PTW · Baltimore Immigration Court · 2,194 merits · 39.2% grant
IJ PMT · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 2,193 merits · 57.4% grant
IJ FMT · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 2,174 merits · 25.9% grant
IJ JBC · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 2,169 merits · 28.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code EPD: 2,213 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge EPD's 2,213-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EPD at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,213. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,213 decisions FY2015–2025 (#19 of 1.7K).

Judge EPD's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,213, 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 EPD'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.