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Immigration Judge HRD

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge HRD's 85.9% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 654 decisions FY2015–2025 (#404 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

85.9%
Asylum grant rate
14.1%
Asylum denial rate
654
Asylum decisions

Judge HRD in one line

Judge HRD's asylum grant rate is 85.9% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 654 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

85.9%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
654
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+37.6 pp
vs. national average
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"HRD" 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. Judge HRD's 85.9% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge HRD 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)

85.9% 62nd of 1696 higher than 1,634 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 %
2019 5 1 4 20.0%
2020 1 0 1 0.0%
2022 1 1 0 100.0%
2023 179 167 12 93.3%
2024 209 184 25 88.0%
2025 259 209 50 80.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge HRD's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge HRD's 85.9% 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 HRD are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SR1 86.0% +0.1 pp 292 LIGHT New York - Varick Street
OLC 85.8% -0.1 pp 1,310 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
SAA 86.1% +0.2 pp 101 LIGHT Chelmsford
JJS 86.2% +0.3 pp 130 LIGHT San Francisco
PAR 85.6% -0.3 pp 465 LIGHT New York - Federal Plaza
AED 85.6% -0.3 pp 417 LIGHT Sacramento

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge HRD runs 85.9% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ SML
95.5%
1,257 merits
Bench low
IJ ASM
4.5%
264 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 AMJ · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 654 merits · 27.5% grant
  • IJ MEN · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 652 merits · 79.0% grant
  • IJ DNA · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 652 merits · 69.2% grant
  • IJ JIP · Chicago Immigration Court · 657 merits · 84.6% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code HRD: 654 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge HRD's 654-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ HRD at San Francisco Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 85.9%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 654 decisions FY2015–2025 (#404 of 1.7K).

Judge HRD's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 85.9%, 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 HRD'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.