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Immigration Judge JSL

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,620 merits decisions place Judge JSL among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,620 decisions FY2015–2025 (#67 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

37.7%
Asylum grant rate
62.3%
Asylum denial rate
1,620
Asylum decisions

Judge JSL in one line

Judge JSL's asylum grant rate is 37.7% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,620 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

37.7%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
1,620
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-10.6 pp
vs. national average
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"JSL" 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 JSL's 62.3% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JSL 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)

37.7% 915th of 1696 higher than 781 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 %
2015 1 1 0 100.0%
2016 18 7 11 38.9%
2017 53 14 39 26.4%
2018 157 49 108 31.2%
2019 311 79 232 25.4%
2020 220 64 156 29.1%
2021 36 16 20 44.4%
2022 92 16 76 17.4%
2023 242 86 156 35.5%
2024 170 82 88 48.2%
2025 320 196 124 61.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JSL'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 37.7% (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 JSL are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
IEB 37.7% same 589 FULL Los Angeles - West
RBM 37.8% +0.1 pp 2,699 HEAVY Seattle
SFK 37.8% +0.1 pp 1,035 FULL Orlando
TLF 37.8% +0.1 pp 828 FULL Tacoma
MNN 37.8% +0.1 pp 489 LIGHT Miami
ABE 37.8% +0.1 pp 82 THIN Oakdale

Same-bench poles at Kansas City

Same-bench spread at Kansas City: Judge JSL runs 37.7% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ CPJ
45.6%
623 merits
Bench low
IJ GRB
19.9%
497 merits

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 JVJ · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,617 merits · 87.5% grant
  • IJ JHB · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,626 merits · 32.8% grant
  • IJ PSO · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,627 merits · 55.6% grant
  • IJ AAS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,628 merits · 79.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JSL: 1,620 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JSL's 1,620-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JSL at Kansas City Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,620. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,620 decisions FY2015–2025 (#67 of 1.7K).

Judge JSL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,620, 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 JSL'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.