What is Judge JPK's grant rate?

Immigration Judge JPK has an overall grant rate of 86.5% across 340 decisions at the Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court. The denial rate is 13.5%.

Where does Judge JPK serve?

Judge JPK serves at the Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge JPK decided?

Judge JPK has decided 340 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 294 grants and 46 denials.

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

No. Judge JPK's 86.5% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration judge · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court

Immigration Judge JPK

Name: Immigration Judge JPK - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge JPK's 86.5% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 86.5% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

86.5%
Asylum grant rate: 13.5%
Asylum denial rate: 340
Asylum decisions

Judge JPK in one line

Judge JPK's asylum grant rate is 86.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 340 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

86.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 340
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: +38.2 pp
vs. national average

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"JPK" 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

340merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted294(86%)Denied46(14%)

Statistical data only. Judge JPK's 86.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JPK 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)

86.5% 57th of 1696 higher than 1,639 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 %
2023	5	5	0	100.0%
2024	68	63	5	92.6%
2025	267	226	41	84.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JPK's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JPK's 86.5% 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 JPK are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
JEB	86.4%	-0.1 pp	191	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
LIA	86.7%	+0.2 pp	879	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
KHS	86.7%	+0.2 pp	30	THIN	Salt Lake City
JJS	86.2%	-0.3 pp	130	LIGHT	San Francisco
AJR	86.9%	+0.4 pp	1,517	FULL	Newark
JMP	86.9%	+0.4 pp	1,124	FULL	San Francisco

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard

Same-bench spread at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard: Judge JPK runs 86.5% - 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.

IJ ENA · Sterling Immigration Court · 341 merits · 65.1% grant
IJ RHM · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 341 merits · 46.9% grant
IJ SGA · Miami - Krome Immigration Court · 339 merits · 13.3% grant
IJ BHL · LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · 339 merits · 5.0% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge JPK at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JPK's 340-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JPK at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 86.5%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 340 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JPK's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 86.5%, 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 JPK'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.