What is Judge LLR's grant rate?

Immigration Judge LLR has an overall grant rate of 90.3% across 547 decisions at the San Francisco Immigration Court. The denial rate is 9.7%.

Where does Judge LLR serve?

Judge LLR serves at the San Francisco Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge LLR decided?

Judge LLR has decided 547 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 494 grants and 53 denials.

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

No. Judge LLR's 90.3% 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 LLR

Name: Immigration Judge LLR - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge LLR's 90.3% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 547 decisions FY2015–2025 (#505 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

90.3%
Asylum grant rate: 9.7%
Asylum denial rate: 547
Asylum decisions

Judge LLR in one line

Judge LLR's asylum grant rate is 90.3% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 547 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

90.3%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 547
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +42.0 pp
vs. national average

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"LLR" 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

547merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted494(90%)Denied53(10%)

Statistical data only. Judge LLR's 90.3% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LLR 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)

90.3% 28th of 1696 higher than 1,668 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 %
2015	119	116	3	97.5%
2016	166	149	17	89.8%
2017	68	65	3	95.6%
2018	134	118	16	88.1%
2019	60	46	14	76.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LLR's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge LLR's 90.3% 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 LLR are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
VGU	90.4%	+0.1 pp	2,121	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
ICD	90.5%	+0.2 pp	2,711	HEAVY	San Francisco
FGL	90.6%	+0.3 pp	2,218	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
DNS	90.6%	+0.3 pp	774	FULL	Baltimore
DDK	90.0%	-0.3 pp	627	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
RAW	90.0%	-0.3 pp	30	THIN	San Francisco

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge LLR runs 90.3% - 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 LOC · San Diego Immigration Court · 547 merits · 37.1% grant
IJ ADM · San Antonio Immigration Court · 548 merits · 51.5% grant
IJ JCL · San Diego Immigration Court · 548 merits · 26.3% grant
IJ JLR · San Diego Immigration Court · 546 merits · 23.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code LLR: 547 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge LLR's 547-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LLR at San Francisco Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 90.3%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 547 decisions FY2015–2025 (#505 of 1.7K).

Judge LLR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 90.3%, 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 LLR'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.