Immigration judge · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KWR

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge KWR's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 507 decisions FY2015–2025 (#540 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

43.8%
Asylum grant rate
56.2%
Asylum denial rate
507
Asylum decisions

Judge KWR in one line

Judge KWR's asylum grant rate is 43.8% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 507 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

43.8%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
507
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-4.5 pp
vs. national average
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"KWR" 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. 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 KWR 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)

43.8% 754th of 1696 higher than 942 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 %
2020 57 19 38 33.3%
2022 95 56 39 58.9%
2023 47 30 17 63.8%
2024 125 61 64 48.8%
2025 183 56 127 30.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KWR'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 43.8% (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 KWR are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JMG 43.8% same 1,424 FULL Detroit
JLS 43.8% same 790 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
MBK 43.7% -0.1 pp 575 FULL Phoenix
AWS 43.7% -0.1 pp 323 LIGHT Houston - S. Gessner Road
JPL 43.9% +0.1 pp 1,377 FULL Orlando
CST 43.9% +0.1 pp 212 LIGHT Annandale

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 12 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge KWR is at 43.8%.

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 TSC · Tacoma Immigration Court · 506 merits · 26.9% grant
  • IJ CSO · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 509 merits · 26.7% grant
  • IJ JLK · Sterling Immigration Court · 510 merits · 48.8% grant
  • IJ LCB · Sterling Immigration Court · 510 merits · 36.9% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code KWR: 507 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 KWR at Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 507 decisions FY2015–2025 (#540 of 1.7K).

Judge KWR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 KWR'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.