What is Judge LIY's grant rate?

Immigration Judge LIY has an overall grant rate of 29.5% across 146 decisions at the Chicago Immigration Court. The denial rate is 70.5%.

Where does Judge LIY serve?

Judge LIY serves at the Chicago Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge LIY decided?

Judge LIY has decided 146 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 43 grants and 103 denials.

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

No. Judge LIY's 70.5% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge LIY

Name: Immigration Judge LIY - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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 LIY's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 29.5% (below the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

29.5%
Asylum grant rate: 70.5%
Asylum denial rate: 146
Asylum decisions

Judge LIY in one line

Judge LIY's asylum grant rate is 29.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 146 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

29.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 146
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: -18.8 pp
vs. national average

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"LIY" 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

146merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted43(29%)Denied103(71%)

Statistical data only. Judge LIY's 70.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LIY 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)

29.5% 1121st of 1696 higher than 575 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	33	6	27	18.2%
2024	100	32	68	32.0%
2025	13	5	8	38.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LIY'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 29.5% (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 LIY are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MMR	29.5%	same	1,351	FULL	Fort Snelling
AAS	29.5%	same	61	THIN	Tacoma
ODS	29.4%	-0.1 pp	707	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
PAB	29.4%	-0.1 pp	401	LIGHT	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
PMH	29.4%	-0.1 pp	163	LIGHT	Imperial
CMS	29.7%	+0.2 pp	1,001	FULL	Houston - S. Gessner Road

Same-bench poles at Chicago

Same-bench spread at Chicago: Judge LIY runs 29.5% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

IJ MTG · Harlingen Immigration Court · 146 merits · 23.3% grant
IJ MMT · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 146 merits · 19.9% grant
IJ REC · Phoenix Immigration Court · 146 merits · 50.0% grant
IJ ACL · Newark Immigration Court · 146 merits · 61.0% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge LIY's 146-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LIY at Chicago Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 146 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge LIY'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 LIY'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.