Immigration judge · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JDO

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 716 merits decisions place Judge JDO among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 716 decisions FY2015–2025 (#347 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

39.5%
Asylum grant rate
60.5%
Asylum denial rate
716
Asylum decisions

Judge JDO in one line

Judge JDO's asylum grant rate is 39.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 716 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

39.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
716
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-8.8 pp
vs. national average
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"JDO" 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 JDO's 60.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JDO 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)

39.5% 866th of 1696 higher than 830 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 %
2022 6 4 2 66.7%
2023 45 18 27 40.0%
2024 201 53 148 26.4%
2025 464 208 256 44.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JDO'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 39.5% (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 JDO are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
AED 39.5% same 43 THIN Tacoma
TAM 39.6% +0.1 pp 1,312 FULL Boston
WRL 39.6% +0.1 pp 680 FULL Santa Ana
PIE 39.6% +0.1 pp 566 FULL Santa Ana
LRS 39.4% -0.1 pp 137 LIGHT Sacramento
AEM 39.7% +0.2 pp 1,343 FULL Miami

Same-bench poles at Houston - Greenspoint Park

Same-bench spread at Houston - Greenspoint Park: Judge JDO runs 39.5% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 KBJ · Buffalo Immigration Court · 716 merits · 36.0% grant
  • IJ SES · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 714 merits · 44.8% grant
  • IJ JJO · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 719 merits · 39.1% grant
  • IJ JN · Dallas Immigration Court · 720 merits · 71.9% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JDO: 716 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JDO at Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 716. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 716 decisions FY2015–2025 (#347 of 1.7K).

Judge JDO's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 716, 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 JDO'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.