What is Judge IRD's grant rate?

Immigration Judge IRD has an overall grant rate of 25.1% across 287 decisions at the Hyattsville Immigration Court. The denial rate is 74.9%.

Where does Judge IRD serve?

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

How many cases has Judge IRD decided?

Judge IRD has decided 287 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 72 grants and 215 denials.

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

No. Judge IRD's 74.9% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge IRD

Name: Immigration Judge IRD - 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: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge IRD's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 25.1% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is mid-band at 287 decisions FY2015–2025.

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

25.1%
Asylum grant rate: 74.9%
Asylum denial rate: 287
Asylum decisions

Judge IRD in one line

Judge IRD's asylum grant rate is 25.1% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 287 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

25.1%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate: 287
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: -23.2 pp
vs. national average

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"IRD" 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

287merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted72(25%)Denied215(75%)

Statistical data only. Judge IRD's 74.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge IRD 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)

25.1% 1239th of 1696 higher than 457 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 %
2024	6	0	6	0.0%
2025	281	72	209	25.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge IRD's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge IRD's 25.1% grant rate, a lower-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 IRD are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CRS	25.1%	same	319	LIGHT	Cleveland
JAM	25.1%	same	179	LIGHT	Houston - Smith Street
NAM	25.2%	+0.1 pp	151	LIGHT	Oakdale
STT	25.0%	-0.1 pp	296	LIGHT	Indianapolis
CEL	25.0%	-0.1 pp	172	LIGHT	New York - Varick Street
SC2	25.0%	-0.1 pp	172	LIGHT	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street

Same-bench poles at Hyattsville

Same-bench spread at Hyattsville: Judge IRD runs 25.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

IJ RLR · San Diego Immigration Court · 287 merits · 26.1% grant
IJ MLE · Miami - Krome Immigration Court · 287 merits · 4.9% grant
IJ LDC · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 288 merits · 24.0% grant
IJ LSJ · Boston Immigration Court · 288 merits · 49.0% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code IRD (25.1%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge IRD's 287-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ IRD at Hyattsville Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 287 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge IRD'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 IRD'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.