Immigration judge · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KAW

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,014 merits decisions place Judge KAW among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,014 decisions FY2015–2025 (#186 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

32.1%
Asylum grant rate
67.9%
Asylum denial rate
1,014
Asylum decisions

Judge KAW in one line

Judge KAW's asylum grant rate is 32.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,014 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

32.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
1,014
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-16.2 pp
vs. national average
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"KAW" 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 KAW's 67.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge KAW 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)

32.1% 1057th of 1696 higher than 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 %
2021 26 10 16 38.5%
2022 164 64 100 39.0%
2023 258 79 179 30.6%
2024 253 69 184 27.3%
2025 313 103 210 32.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KAW'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 32.1% (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 KAW are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
CBA 32.1% same 448 LIGHT Conroe
ROS 32.1% same 421 LIGHT Orlando
DHF 32.1% same 28 THIN Elizabeth
GET 32.1% same 28 THIN Los Angeles - West
GMP 32.2% +0.1 pp 2,338 HEAVY Houston - Smith Street
TWJ 32.0% -0.1 pp 175 LIGHT Cleveland

Same-bench poles at Houston - Greenspoint Park

Same-bench spread at Houston - Greenspoint Park: Judge KAW runs 32.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 MIN · Portland Immigration Court (Detained) · 1,013 merits · 43.3% grant
  • IJ TNN · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 1,016 merits · 10.6% grant
  • IJ JER · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 1,017 merits · 31.1% grant
  • IJ JMM · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,010 merits · 39.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code KAW: 1,014 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ KAW at Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,014. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,014 decisions FY2015–2025 (#186 of 1.7K).

Judge KAW's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,014, 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 KAW'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.