What is Judge LIA's grant rate?

Immigration Judge LIA has an overall grant rate of 86.7% across 879 decisions at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. The denial rate is 13.3%.

Where does Judge LIA serve?

Judge LIA serves at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge LIA decided?

Judge LIA has decided 879 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 762 grants and 117 denials.

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

No. Judge LIA's 86.7% 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 · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

Immigration Judge LIA

Name: Immigration Judge LIA - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge LIA's 86.7% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 879 decisions FY2015–2025 (#249 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

86.7%
Asylum grant rate: 13.3%
Asylum denial rate: 879
Asylum decisions

Judge LIA in one line

Judge LIA's asylum grant rate is 86.7% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 879 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

86.7%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 879
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +38.4 pp
vs. national average

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"LIA" 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

879merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted762(87%)Denied117(13%)

Statistical data only. Judge LIA's 86.7% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LIA 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)

86.7% 56th of 1696 higher than 1,640 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 %
2017	2	0	2	0.0%
2019	6	0	6	0.0%
2020	2	2	0	100.0%
2022	112	100	12	89.3%
2023	251	230	21	91.6%
2024	175	165	10	94.3%
2025	331	265	66	80.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LIA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge LIA's 86.7% 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 LIA are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
KHS	86.7%	same	30	THIN	Salt Lake City
AJR	86.9%	+0.2 pp	1,517	FULL	Newark
JMP	86.9%	+0.2 pp	1,124	FULL	San Francisco
JPK	86.5%	-0.2 pp	340	LIGHT	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
SSG	86.9%	+0.2 pp	199	LIGHT	San Francisco
HJS	87.0%	+0.3 pp	1,296	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge LIA runs 86.7% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 THW · Newark Immigration Court · 879 merits · 38.0% grant
IJ CAH · San Antonio Immigration Court · 878 merits · 46.5% grant
IJ GEC · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 876 merits · 41.2% grant
IJ DAJ · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · 876 merits · 40.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code LIA: 879 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge LIA's 879-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LIA at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 86.7%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 879 decisions FY2015–2025 (#249 of 1.7K).

Judge LIA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 86.7%, 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 LIA'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.