What is Judge ERT's grant rate?

Immigration Judge ERT has an overall grant rate of 61.5% across 1,081 decisions at the Denver Immigration Court. The denial rate is 38.5%.

Where does Judge ERT serve?

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

How many cases has Judge ERT decided?

Judge ERT has decided 1,081 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 665 grants and 416 denials.

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

No. Judge ERT's 61.5% 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 ERT

Name: Immigration Judge ERT - 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: 1,081 merits decisions place Judge ERT among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,081 decisions FY2015–2025 (#162 of 1.7K).

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Data updated 2026-09-05

61.5%
Asylum grant rate: 38.5%
Asylum denial rate: 1,081
Asylum decisions

Judge ERT in one line

Judge ERT's asylum grant rate is 61.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,081 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

61.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,081
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +13.2 pp
vs. national average

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"ERT" 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

1,081merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted665(62%)Denied416(38%)

Statistical data only. Judge ERT's 61.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge ERT 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)

61.5% 347th of 1696 higher than 1,349 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	36	34	2	94.4%
2016	116	73	43	62.9%
2017	87	61	26	70.1%
2018	38	23	15	60.5%
2019	146	52	94	35.6%
2020	151	60	91	39.7%
2021	32	14	18	43.8%
2022	131	90	41	68.7%
2023	180	117	63	65.0%
2024	164	141	23	86.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge ERT's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge ERT's 61.5% 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 ERT are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
SJS	61.5%	same	792	FULL	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
WAH	61.5%	same	96	THIN	Phoenix
BAN	61.6%	+0.1 pp	2,530	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
DK1	61.6%	+0.1 pp	1,631	FULL	Baltimore
GAM	61.4%	-0.1 pp	399	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
CPN	61.4%	-0.1 pp	166	LIGHT	Miami

Same-bench poles at Denver

Same-bench spread at Denver: Judge ERT runs 61.5% - 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 MAC · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 49.9% grant
IJ DDE · Seattle Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 33.0% grant
IJ SPN · Sacramento Immigration Court · 1,080 merits · 80.1% grant
IJ DHS · Dallas Immigration Court · 1,084 merits · 48.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code ERT: 1,081 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge ERT's 1,081-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ ERT at Denver Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,081. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,081 decisions FY2015–2025 (#162 of 1.7K).

Judge ERT's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,081, 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 ERT'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.