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Immigration Judge JWD

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 27 merits decisions make Judge JWD a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 3.7% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 27 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

3.7%
Asylum grant rate
96.3%
Asylum denial rate
27
Asylum decisions

Judge JWD in one line

Judge JWD's asylum grant rate is 3.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 27 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

3.7%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
27
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-44.6 pp
vs. national average
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"JWD" 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 JWD's 96.3% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JWD 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)

3.7% 1653rd of 1696 higher than 43 of 1,696 judges

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JWD's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JWD's 3.7% grant rate, a lower-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 JWD are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
WJN 3.8% +0.1 pp 80 THIN Fort Snelling
NBW 3.8% +0.1 pp 52 THIN Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
RDM 3.6% -0.1 pp 56 THIN Conroe
GDB 3.9% +0.2 pp 304 LIGHT San Antonio
BDP 3.9% +0.2 pp 231 LIGHT Adelanto
PHE 3.9% +0.2 pp 51 THIN LaSalle

Same-bench poles at Aurora

Same-bench spread at Aurora: Judge JWD runs 3.7% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ NMC
47.1%
444 merits
Bench low
IJ JFP
6.4%
47 merits

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code JWD (3.7%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JWD's 27-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JWD at Aurora Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 27. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 27 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JWD's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 27, 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 JWD'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.