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Immigration Judge LCH

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 LCH's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 608 decisions FY2015–2025 (#453 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

48.0%
Asylum grant rate
52.0%
Asylum denial rate
608
Asylum decisions

Judge LCH in one line

Judge LCH's asylum grant rate is 48.0% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 608 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

48.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
608
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-0.3 pp
vs. national average
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"LCH" 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 LCH 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)

48% 655th of 1696 higher than 1,041 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 %
2023 1 0 1 0.0%
2024 188 110 78 58.5%
2025 419 182 237 43.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LCH'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 48.0% (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 LCH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
YKA 47.9% -0.1 pp 1,265 FULL Orlando
EDL 47.9% -0.1 pp 313 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
LPO 48.1% +0.1 pp 160 LIGHT New York - Federal Plaza
DHS 48.2% +0.2 pp 1,084 FULL Dallas
CAB 47.8% -0.2 pp 46 THIN Los Angeles - West
NBL 47.7% -0.3 pp 1,132 FULL Newark

Same-bench poles at Santa Ana

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 27 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge LCH is at 48.0%.

Bench high
IJ VAL
83.3%
162 merits
Bench low
IJ JER
31.1%
1,017 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 SNM · Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard Immigration Court · 608 merits · 52.6% grant
  • IJ WWM · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 608 merits · 62.7% grant
  • IJ JB · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 607 merits · 97.2% grant
  • IJ RDM · Miami Immigration Court · 606 merits · 53.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code LCH: 608 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge LCH's 608-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LCH at Santa Ana Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 608 decisions FY2015–2025 (#453 of 1.7K).

Judge LCH'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 LCH'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.