Immigration judge · New Orleans Immigration Court

Immigration Judge LFZ

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 LFZ's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 31.4% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

31.4%
Asylum grant rate
68.6%
Asylum denial rate
102
Asylum decisions

Judge LFZ in one line

Judge LFZ's asylum grant rate is 31.4% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 102 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

31.4%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
102
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-16.9 pp
vs. national average
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"LFZ" 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 LFZ's 68.6% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LFZ 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)

31.4% 1070th of 1696 higher than 626 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LFZ'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 31.4% (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 LFZ are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
ARL 31.4% same 1,237 FULL Omaha
LRM 31.4% same 35 THIN Tucson
MWA 31.3% -0.1 pp 1,451 FULL Miami
LCH 31.3% -0.1 pp 1,257 FULL Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
KQG 31.3% -0.1 pp 668 FULL Baltimore
JDR 31.5% +0.1 pp 127 LIGHT Oakdale

Same-bench poles at New Orleans

Same-bench spread at New Orleans: Judge LFZ runs 31.4% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ RD1 · Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive Immigration Court · 102 merits · 21.6% grant
  • IJ HAK · Chelmsford Immigration Court · 103 merits · 35.9% grant
  • IJ HAK · Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · 103 merits · 35.9% grant
  • IJ MIO · Harlingen Immigration Court · 101 merits · 25.7% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LFZ at New Orleans Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 102 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge LFZ'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 LFZ'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.