Immigration judge · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JJC

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge JJC's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 519 decisions FY2015–2025 (#523 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.6%
Asylum grant rate
57.4%
Asylum denial rate
519
Asylum decisions

Judge JJC in one line

Judge JJC's asylum grant rate is 42.6% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 519 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

42.6%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
519
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-5.7 pp
vs. national average
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"JJC" 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. 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 JJC 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)

42.6% 780th of 1696 higher than 916 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 1 1 0 100.0%
2023 22 9 13 40.9%
2024 170 87 83 51.2%
2025 326 124 202 38.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JJC'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 42.6% (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 JJC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
BTP 42.6% same 693 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
DGT 42.6% same 61 THIN Harlingen
ICF 42.6% same 61 THIN Tucson
ATL 42.7% +0.1 pp 1,009 FULL Charlotte
SEM 42.5% -0.1 pp 1,000 FULL Miami
WLA 42.5% -0.1 pp 40 THIN Harlingen

Same-bench poles at Houston - S. Gessner Road

Same-bench spread at Houston - S. Gessner Road: Judge JJC runs 42.6% - 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 JNP · Newark Immigration Court · 520 merits · 40.4% grant
  • IJ JOB · Chicago Immigration Court · 518 merits · 63.1% grant
  • IJ AAV · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 517 merits · 36.4% grant
  • IJ LD · Baltimore Immigration Court · 517 merits · 57.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JJC: 519 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 JJC at Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 519 decisions FY2015–2025 (#523 of 1.7K).

Judge JJC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 JJC'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.