Immigration Judge JAL

Case Insights: Judge JAL

Immigration Judge JAL has issued 258 recorded decisions at the BOS in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 153 resulted in relief granted (59.3%), 0 were denied (0.0%), and 105 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (40.7%). That volume places Judge JAL among a lighter caseload at the BOS.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 59.3 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as roughly balanced relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.

The BOS itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge JAL's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for BOS lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.