What is Judge EVS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge EVS has an overall grant rate of 80.2% across 101 decisions at the Hyattsville Immigration Court. The denial rate is 19.8%.

Where does Judge EVS serve?

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

How many cases has Judge EVS decided?

Judge EVS has decided 101 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 81 grants and 20 denials.

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

No. Judge EVS's 80.2% 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 EVS

Name: Immigration Judge EVS - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge EVS's 80.2% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 80.2% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

80.2%
Asylum grant rate: 19.8%
Asylum denial rate: 101
Asylum decisions

Judge EVS in one line

Judge EVS's asylum grant rate is 80.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 101 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

80.2%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 101
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: +31.9 pp
vs. national average

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"EVS" 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

101merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted81(80%)Denied20(20%)

Statistical data only. Judge EVS's 80.2% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge EVS 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)

80.2% 105th of 1696 higher than 1,591 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 %
2018	1	0	1	0.0%
2022	56	45	11	80.4%
2023	44	36	8	81.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge EVS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge EVS's 80.2% 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 EVS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
SPN	80.1%	-0.1 pp	1,080	FULL	Sacramento
DKR	80.1%	-0.1 pp	1,078	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
CAC	80.1%	-0.1 pp	553	FULL	Hyattsville
RJA	80.0%	-0.2 pp	40	THIN	New York - Varick Street
DDF	80.5%	+0.3 pp	41	THIN	New York - Federal Plaza
DBS	80.6%	+0.4 pp	206	LIGHT	New York - Broadway

Same-bench poles at Hyattsville

Same-bench spread at Hyattsville: Judge EVS runs 80.2% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

IJ SAA · Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · 101 merits · 86.1% grant
IJ MAU · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 101 merits · 53.5% grant
IJ MIO · Harlingen Immigration Court · 101 merits · 25.7% grant
IJ KWR · Adelanto Immigration Court · 101 merits · 3.0% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge EVS's 101-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ EVS at Hyattsville Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 80.2%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 101 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge EVS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 80.2%, 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 EVS'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.