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Immigration Judge JAH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 85 merits decisions make Judge JAH a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 44.7% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

44.7%
Asylum grant rate
55.3%
Asylum denial rate
85
Asylum decisions

Judge JAH in one line

Judge JAH's asylum grant rate is 44.7% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 85 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

44.7%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
85
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-3.6 pp
vs. national average
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"JAH" 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 JAH 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)

44.7% 734th of 1696 higher than 962 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 %
2023 19 7 12 36.8%
2024 66 31 35 47.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JAH'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 44.7% (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 JAH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
HAR 44.7% same 895 FULL Orlando
TRE 44.7% same 734 FULL Los Angeles - West
SES 44.8% +0.1 pp 714 FULL Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
GSS 44.8% +0.1 pp 620 FULL San Francisco
RDC 44.8% +0.1 pp 145 LIGHT Boston
GRG 44.6% -0.1 pp 56 THIN El Paso

Same-bench poles at Boston

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 47 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge JAH is at 44.7%.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

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

  • IJ AMS · Chelmsford Immigration Court · 85 merits · 45.9% grant
  • IJ KHU · Cleveland Immigration Court · 85 merits · 18.8% grant
  • IJ MPB · Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · 85 merits · 9.4% grant
  • IJ WKH · Stewart Immigration Court · 85 merits · 5.9% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge JAH at Boston Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JAH at Boston Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 85. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 85 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JAH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 85, 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 JAH'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.