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Immigration Judge JHK

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 97.8% is Judge JHK's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 2.2% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 46 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

2.2%
Asylum grant rate
97.8%
Asylum denial rate
46
Asylum decisions

Judge JHK in one line

Judge JHK's asylum grant rate is 2.2% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 46 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

2.2%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
46
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-46.1 pp
vs. national average
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"JHK" 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 JHK's 97.8% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JHK 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)

2.2% 1676th of 1696 higher than 20 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JHK's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JHK's 2.2% grant rate, a lower-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 JHK are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SSL 2.2% same 46 THIN Pearsall
YKA 2.3% +0.1 pp 220 LIGHT Miami - Krome
TCR 2.3% +0.1 pp 43 THIN El Paso Service Processing Center
JAM 2.1% -0.1 pp 47 THIN Memphis
GWR 2.4% +0.2 pp 85 THIN Conroe
JSW 2.4% +0.2 pp 42 THIN Stewart

Same-bench poles at Elizabeth

Same-bench spread at Elizabeth: Judge JHK runs 2.2% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ DH
68.9%
148 merits
Bench low
IJ LMM
2.9%
103 merits

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code JHK (2.2%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JHK's 46-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JHK at Elizabeth Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 97.8%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 46 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JHK's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 97.8%, 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 JHK'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.