What is Judge JML's grant rate?

Immigration Judge JML has an overall grant rate of 30.5% across 1,979 decisions at the Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court. The denial rate is 69.5%.

Where does Judge JML serve?

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

How many cases has Judge JML decided?

Judge JML has decided 1,979 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 604 grants and 1,375 denials.

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

No. Judge JML's 69.5% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judges → Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court

Immigration judge · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JML

Name: Immigration Judge JML - 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: 1,979 merits decisions place Judge JML among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,979 decisions FY2015–2025 (#34 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

30.5%
Asylum grant rate: 69.5%
Asylum denial rate: 1,979
Asylum decisions

Judge JML in one line

Judge JML's asylum grant rate is 30.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,979 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

30.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,979
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -17.8 pp
vs. national average

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"JML" 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

1,979merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted604(31%)Denied1,375(69%)

Statistical data only. Judge JML's 69.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JML 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)

30.5% 1099th of 1696 higher than 597 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 %
2017	1	0	1	0.0%
2018	1	0	1	0.0%
2019	1	0	1	0.0%
2020	45	5	40	11.1%
2021	60	9	51	15.0%
2022	446	114	332	25.6%
2023	257	143	114	55.6%
2024	568	153	415	26.9%
2025	600	180	420	30.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JML'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 30.5% (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 JML are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
WAD	30.5%	same	226	LIGHT	Elizabeth
JBE	30.5%	same	95	THIN	Conroe
RWD	30.4%	-0.1 pp	964	FULL	Memphis
DHF	30.6%	+0.1 pp	216	LIGHT	Harlingen
MLE	30.4%	-0.1 pp	171	LIGHT	Miami
EJC	30.6%	+0.1 pp	170	LIGHT	Aurora

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street

Same-bench spread at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street: Judge JML runs 30.5% - 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 DWC · Baltimore Immigration Court · 1,973 merits · 54.3% grant
IJ MCL · Philadelphia Immigration Court · 1,961 merits · 50.6% grant
IJ PSS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,950 merits · 89.9% grant
IJ CSG · San Francisco Immigration Court · 2,016 merits · 78.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JML: 1,979 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JML's 1,979-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JML at Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,979. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,979 decisions FY2015–2025 (#34 of 1.7K).

Judge JML's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,979, 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 JML'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.