Immigration judge · Annandale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JBT

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 29 merits decisions make Judge JBT a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 31.0% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

31.0%
Asylum grant rate
69.0%
Asylum denial rate
29
Asylum decisions

Judge JBT in one line

Judge JBT's asylum grant rate is 31.0% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 29 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

31.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
29
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-17.3 pp
vs. national average
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"JBT" 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. Judge JBT's 69.0% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JBT 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)

31% 1083rd of 1696 higher than 613 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 %
2021 6 4 2 66.7%
2022 19 5 14 26.3%
2024 4 0 4 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JBT'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 31.0% (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 JBT are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
DDO 31.0% same 84 THIN Boston
JAH 31.0% same 42 THIN Chelmsford
SEJ 30.9% -0.1 pp 1,725 FULL Seattle
JER 31.1% +0.1 pp 1,017 FULL Santa Ana
GMT 30.9% -0.1 pp 612 FULL Tucson
MWK 30.9% -0.1 pp 576 FULL Memphis

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge JBT runs 31.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JBT at Annandale Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 29. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 29 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JBT's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 29, 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 JBT'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.