What is Judge IRS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge IRS has an overall grant rate of 36.5% across 52 decisions at the LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena). The denial rate is 63.5%.

Where does Judge IRS serve?

Judge IRS serves at the LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena). You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge IRS decided?

Judge IRS has decided 52 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 19 grants and 33 denials.

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

No. Judge IRS's 63.5% 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 IRS

Name: Immigration Judge IRS - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 52 merits decisions make Judge IRS a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 36.5% (below the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

36.5%
Asylum grant rate: 63.5%
Asylum denial rate: 52
Asylum decisions

Judge IRS in one line

Judge IRS's asylum grant rate is 36.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 52 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

36.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 52
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: -11.8 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

52merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted19(37%)Denied33(63%)

Statistical data only. Judge IRS's 63.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. 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)

36.5% 942nd of 1696 higher than 754 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	31	12	19	38.7%
2020	21	7	14	33.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge IRS'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 36.5% (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 IRS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
NHT	36.5%	same	480	LIGHT	Los Angeles - West
AKN	36.6%	+0.1 pp	1,432	FULL	Houston - Smith Street
AAV	36.4%	-0.1 pp	517	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
MTP	36.6%	+0.1 pp	467	LIGHT	Houston - Greenspoint Park
JJO	36.4%	-0.1 pp	55	THIN	Imperial
HPI	36.4%	-0.1 pp	33	THIN	Imperial

Same-bench poles at LaSalle

Same-bench spread at LaSalle: Judge IRS runs 36.5% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

IJ AXP · Oakdale Immigration Court · 52 merits · 5.8% grant
IJ NBW · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 52 merits · 3.8% grant
IJ DST · Otero Immigration Court · 52 merits · 1.9% grant
IJ EJC · San Francisco Immigration Court · 52 merits · 78.8% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge IRS at LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena). Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge IRS's 52-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ IRS at LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena); merits-decision volume 52. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 52 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge IRS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 52, 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.