What is Judge JDL's grant rate?

Immigration Judge JDL has an overall grant rate of 45.6% across 710 decisions at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court. The denial rate is 54.4%.

Where does Judge JDL serve?

Judge JDL serves at the Los Angeles - West Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge JDL decided?

Judge JDL has decided 710 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 324 grants and 386 denials.

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

No. Judge JDL's 45.6% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judges → Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

Immigration judge · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JDL

Name: Immigration Judge JDL - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 710 merits decisions place Judge JDL among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 710 decisions FY2015–2025 (#351 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

45.6%
Asylum grant rate: 54.4%
Asylum denial rate: 710
Asylum decisions

Judge JDL in one line

Judge JDL's asylum grant rate is 45.6% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 710 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

45.6%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 710
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -2.7 pp
vs. national average

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"JDL" 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

710merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted324(46%)Denied386(54%)

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 JDL 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)

45.6% 717th of 1696 higher than 979 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	42	11	31	26.2%
2016	52	35	17	67.3%
2017	65	50	15	76.9%
2018	55	19	36	34.5%
2019	139	29	110	20.9%
2020	87	15	72	17.2%
2021	41	19	22	46.3%
2022	39	20	19	51.3%
2023	55	32	23	58.2%
2024	109	74	35	67.9%
2025	26	20	6	76.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JDL'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 45.6% (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 JDL are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CPJ	45.6%	same	623	FULL	Kansas City
KNL	45.7%	+0.1 pp	766	FULL	New York - Broadway
MJO	45.5%	-0.1 pp	692	FULL	Houston - Greenspoint Park
HH	45.5%	-0.1 pp	627	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
AKZ	45.7%	+0.1 pp	534	FULL	Fort Snelling
SJC	45.5%	-0.1 pp	88	THIN	LaSalle

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - West

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 70 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge JDL is at 45.6%.

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 JND · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 710 merits · 14.6% grant
IJ RRM · Pearsall Immigration Court · 709 merits · 18.1% grant
IJ JMP · Concord Immigration Court · 711 merits · 89.9% grant
IJ ODS · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 707 merits · 29.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JDL: 710 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JDL's 710-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JDL at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 710. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 710 decisions FY2015–2025 (#351 of 1.7K).

Judge JDL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 710, 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 JDL'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.