Immigration judge · Dallas Immigration Court
Immigration Judge JNW
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge JNW's 62.4% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 62.4% (above the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 62.4%
- Asylum grant rate
- 37.6%
- Asylum denial rate
- 452
- Asylum decisions
Judge JNW in one line
Judge JNW's asylum grant rate is 62.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 452 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 62.4%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 452
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- +14.1 pp
- vs. national average
"JNW" 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
452merits decisions FY2015–2025
Judge JNW 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)
62.4% 330th of 1696 higher than 1,366 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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100.0% |
| 2025 | 448 | 278 | 170 | 62.1% |
IJ rate-band chamber
Anonymized codes nearest Judge JNW's grant rate
This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JNW's 62.4% grant rate, an upper-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 JNW are shown here.
Same-bench poles at Dallas
Same-bench spread at Dallas: Judge JNW runs 62.4% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.
Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload
Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.
Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge JNW at Dallas Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Judge JNW's 452-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.
DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JNW at Dallas Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 62.4%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 452 decisions FY2015–2025.
Judge JNW's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 62.4%, 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 JNW'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.