Immigration judge · Santa Ana Immigration Court

Immigration Judge HH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 756 merits decisions place Judge HH among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 756 decisions FY2015–2025 (#324 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

57.8%
Asylum grant rate
42.2%
Asylum denial rate
756
Asylum decisions

Judge HH in one line

Judge HH's asylum grant rate is 57.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 756 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

57.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
756
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+9.5 pp
vs. national average
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"HH" 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 HH 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)

57.8% 430th of 1696 higher than 1,266 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 36 27 9 75.0%
2023 71 54 17 76.1%
2024 131 104 27 79.4%
2025 518 252 266 48.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge HH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge HH's 57.8% 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 HH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MJD 57.8% same 412 LIGHT Boston
AC2 57.8% same 408 LIGHT New York - Federal Plaza
CPN 57.8% same 263 LIGHT Imperial
XDD 57.7% -0.1 pp 913 FULL Dallas
DHF 57.7% -0.1 pp 26 THIN Dallas
ICF 57.7% -0.1 pp 26 THIN Phoenix

Same-bench poles at Santa Ana

Same-bench spread at Santa Ana: Judge HH runs 57.8% - 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 DDP · Cleveland Immigration Court · 758 merits · 54.9% grant
  • IJ FHR · Philadelphia Immigration Court · 758 merits · 41.8% grant
  • IJ KNS · Orlando Immigration Court · 759 merits · 59.6% grant
  • IJ MBT · San Antonio Immigration Court · 759 merits · 53.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code HH: 756 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ HH at Santa Ana Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 756. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 756 decisions FY2015–2025 (#324 of 1.7K).

Judge HH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 756, 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 HH'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.