What is Judge JSR's grant rate?

Immigration Judge JSR has an overall grant rate of 54.5% across 721 decisions at the Hyattsville Immigration Court. The denial rate is 45.5%.

Where does Judge JSR serve?

Judge JSR serves at the Hyattsville Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge JSR decided?

Judge JSR has decided 721 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 393 grants and 328 denials.

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

No. Judge JSR's 54.5% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge JSR

Name: Immigration Judge JSR - 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: 721 merits decisions place Judge JSR among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 721 decisions FY2015–2025 (#344 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

54.5%
Asylum grant rate: 45.5%
Asylum denial rate: 721
Asylum decisions

Judge JSR in one line

Judge JSR's asylum grant rate is 54.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 721 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

54.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 721
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +6.2 pp
vs. national average

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"JSR" 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

721merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted393(55%)Denied328(45%)

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 JSR 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)

54.5% 515th of 1696 higher than 1,181 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 %
2022	95	91	4	95.8%
2023	162	112	50	69.1%
2024	153	79	74	51.6%
2025	311	111	200	35.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JSR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JSR's 54.5% 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 JSR are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
FZH	54.5%	same	393	LIGHT	New York - Broadway
RWV	54.5%	same	191	LIGHT	Annandale
AJS	54.4%	-0.1 pp	401	LIGHT	Newark
DWC	54.3%	-0.2 pp	1,973	FULL	Baltimore
AFN	54.3%	-0.2 pp	906	FULL	Santa Ana
PTP	54.3%	-0.2 pp	784	FULL	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street

Same-bench poles at Hyattsville

Same-bench spread at Hyattsville: Judge JSR runs 54.5% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 JNR · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 722 merits · 60.2% grant
IJ JN · Dallas Immigration Court · 720 merits · 71.9% grant
IJ JJO · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 719 merits · 39.1% grant
IJ JDO · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 716 merits · 39.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code JSR: 721 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JSR's 721-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JSR at Hyattsville Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 721. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 721 decisions FY2015–2025 (#344 of 1.7K).

Judge JSR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 721, 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 JSR'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.