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Immigration Judge GSS

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge GSS's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 609 decisions FY2015–2025 (#452 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

41.9%
Asylum grant rate
58.1%
Asylum denial rate
609
Asylum decisions

Judge GSS in one line

Judge GSS's asylum grant rate is 41.9% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 609 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

41.9%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
609
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-6.4 pp
vs. national average
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"GSS" 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 GSS 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)

41.9% 800th of 1696 higher than 896 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 %
2022 20 14 6 70.0%
2023 88 50 38 56.8%
2024 136 30 106 22.1%
2025 365 161 204 44.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge GSS'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 41.9% (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 GSS are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JNW 41.9% same 372 LIGHT Santa Ana
KMC 41.9% same 346 LIGHT Sterling
JBL 42.0% +0.1 pp 2,506 HEAVY New Orleans
FHR 41.8% -0.1 pp 758 FULL Philadelphia
MKN 41.8% -0.1 pp 567 FULL Miami
SAR 42.0% +0.1 pp 226 LIGHT Phoenix

Same-bench poles at Santa Ana

Same-bench spread at Santa Ana: Judge GSS runs 41.9% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ VAL
83.3%
162 merits
Bench low
IJ JER
31.1%
1,017 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 SNM · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · 608 merits · 52.6% grant
  • IJ WWM · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 608 merits · 62.7% grant
  • IJ SH · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 611 merits · 31.8% grant
  • IJ JB · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 607 merits · 97.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code GSS: 609 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge GSS's 609-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ GSS at Santa Ana Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 609 decisions FY2015–2025 (#452 of 1.7K).

Judge GSS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 GSS'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.