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Immigration Judge IRS

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,217 merits decisions place Judge IRS among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,217 decisions FY2015–2025 (#135 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

55.6%
Asylum grant rate
44.4%
Asylum denial rate
1,217
Asylum decisions

Judge IRS in one line

Judge IRS's asylum grant rate is 55.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,217 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

55.6%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
1,217
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+7.3 pp
vs. national average
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"IRS" 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 IRS 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)

55.6% 491st of 1696 higher than 1,205 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 6 4 2 66.7%
2019 65 23 42 35.4%
2020 64 22 42 34.4%
2021 59 18 41 30.5%
2022 184 91 93 49.5%
2023 277 131 146 47.3%
2024 215 175 40 81.4%
2025 347 213 134 61.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge IRS's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge IRS's 55.6% 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 IRS are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
PSO 55.6% same 1,627 FULL San Francisco
TRE 55.6% same 349 LIGHT Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
SHH 55.6% same 124 LIGHT Houston - Smith Street
JMM 55.7% +0.1 pp 907 FULL New York - Broadway
LL1 55.7% +0.1 pp 635 FULL Annandale
DEW 55.5% -0.1 pp 389 LIGHT Hyattsville

Same-bench poles at Detroit

Same-bench spread at Detroit: Judge IRS runs 55.6% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ KLH
73.1%
227 merits
Bench low
IJ ILD
18.2%
44 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 MCD · Las Vegas Immigration Court · 1,212 merits · 56.2% grant
  • IJ YG1 · San Antonio Immigration Court · 1,222 merits · 65.1% grant
  • IJ BAB · Denver Immigration Court · 1,223 merits · 65.2% grant
  • IJ PJC · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 1,226 merits · 57.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code IRS: 1,217 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge IRS's 1,217-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ IRS at Detroit Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,217. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,217 decisions FY2015–2025 (#135 of 1.7K).

Judge IRS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,217, 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 IRS'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.