What is Judge JCA's grant rate?

Immigration Judge JCA has an overall grant rate of 55.2% across 1,888 decisions at the Philadelphia Immigration Court. The denial rate is 44.8%.

Where does Judge JCA serve?

Judge JCA serves at the Philadelphia Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge JCA decided?

Judge JCA has decided 1,888 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,043 grants and 845 denials.

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

No. Judge JCA's 55.2% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge JCA

Name: Immigration Judge JCA - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,888 merits decisions place Judge JCA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,888 decisions FY2015–2025 (#44 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

55.2%
Asylum grant rate: 44.8%
Asylum denial rate: 1,888
Asylum decisions

Judge JCA in one line

Judge JCA's asylum grant rate is 55.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,888 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

55.2%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,888
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +6.9 pp
vs. national average

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"JCA" 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

1,888merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,043(55%)Denied845(45%)

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 JCA 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)

55.2% 500th of 1696 higher than 1,196 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 %
2015	2	0	2	0.0%
2016	21	7	14	33.3%
2017	95	49	46	51.6%
2018	124	62	62	50.0%
2019	251	105	146	41.8%
2020	210	77	133	36.7%
2021	131	48	83	36.6%
2022	161	119	42	73.9%
2023	271	202	69	74.5%
2024	189	152	37	80.4%
2025	433	222	211	51.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JCA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JCA's 55.2% 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 JCA are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
DHO	55.2%	same	904	FULL	Buffalo
CMG	55.3%	+0.1 pp	2,686	HEAVY	Salt Lake City
KJR	55.3%	+0.1 pp	577	FULL	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
BLH	55.3%	+0.1 pp	47	THIN	Baltimore
PKM	55.1%	-0.1 pp	1,503	FULL	Chicago
GJW	55.1%	-0.1 pp	98	THIN	Annandale

Same-bench poles at Philadelphia

Same-bench spread at Philadelphia: Judge JCA runs 55.2% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 MLY · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,888 merits · 84.4% grant
IJ OMB · Boston Immigration Court · 1,897 merits · 67.8% grant
IJ VAW · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,898 merits · 71.0% grant
IJ SLR · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,905 merits · 36.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JCA: 1,888 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JCA's 1,888-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JCA at Philadelphia Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,888. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,888 decisions FY2015–2025 (#44 of 1.7K).

Judge JCA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,888, 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 JCA'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.