What is Judge JWR's grant rate?

Immigration Judge JWR has an overall grant rate of 88.7% across 230 decisions at the Phoenix Immigration Court. The denial rate is 11.3%.

Where does Judge JWR serve?

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

How many cases has Judge JWR decided?

Judge JWR has decided 230 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 204 grants and 26 denials.

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

No. Judge JWR's 88.7% 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 JWR

Name: Immigration Judge JWR - 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: Judge JWR's 88.7% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 88.7% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

88.7%
Asylum grant rate: 11.3%
Asylum denial rate: 230
Asylum decisions

Judge JWR in one line

Judge JWR's asylum grant rate is 88.7% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 230 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

88.7%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 230
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: +40.4 pp
vs. national average

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"JWR" 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

230merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted204(89%)Denied26(11%)

Statistical data only. Judge JWR's 88.7% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge JWR 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)

88.7% 39th of 1696 higher than 1,657 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	38	38	0	100.0%
2016	46	46	0	100.0%
2017	67	64	3	95.5%
2018	79	56	23	70.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge JWR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge JWR's 88.7% 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 JWR are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
SGN	88.6%	-0.1 pp	1,050	FULL	San Francisco
SAA	88.6%	-0.1 pp	140	LIGHT	Boston
RLF	88.9%	+0.2 pp	45	THIN	Salt Lake City
LLU	88.9%	+0.2 pp	27	THIN	Houston - S. Gessner Road
PLM	88.4%	-0.3 pp	516	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
CMN	89.1%	+0.4 pp	92	THIN	San Francisco

Same-bench poles at Phoenix

Same-bench spread at Phoenix: Judge JWR runs 88.7% - 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 JLV · San Francisco Immigration Court · 230 merits · 90.9% grant
IJ SJC · New Orleans Immigration Court · 230 merits · 20.4% grant
IJ SGE · Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · 230 merits · 16.1% grant
IJ ASG · Newark Immigration Court · 231 merits · 72.3% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge JWR at Phoenix Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge JWR's 230-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ JWR at Phoenix Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 88.7%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 230 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge JWR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 88.7%, 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 JWR'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.