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Immigration Judge LME

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,695 merits decisions place Judge LME among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,695 decisions FY2015–2025 (#61 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

33.6%
Asylum grant rate
66.4%
Asylum denial rate
1,695
Asylum decisions

Judge LME in one line

Judge LME's asylum grant rate is 33.6% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,695 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

33.6%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
1,695
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-14.7 pp
vs. national average
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"LME" 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 LME's 66.4% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LME 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)

33.6% 1016th of 1696 higher than 680 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 63 19 44 30.2%
2016 51 22 29 43.1%
2017 91 36 55 39.6%
2018 184 46 138 25.0%
2019 341 55 286 16.1%
2020 305 65 240 21.3%
2021 62 21 41 33.9%
2022 81 26 55 32.1%
2023 203 94 109 46.3%
2024 102 64 38 62.7%
2025 212 121 91 57.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LME'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 33.6% (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 LME are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
PLE 33.6% same 539 FULL Newark
SDC 33.6% same 432 LIGHT Aurora
CM1 33.7% +0.1 pp 1,767 FULL New Orleans
MCH 33.7% +0.1 pp 999 FULL Miami
RRW 33.5% -0.1 pp 272 LIGHT Fort Snelling
RSN 33.7% +0.1 pp 202 LIGHT Laredo

Same-bench poles at Miami

Same-bench spread at Miami: Judge LME runs 33.6% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ MAU
69.3%
456 merits
Bench low
IJ CAM
17.5%
154 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 ALM · Omaha Immigration Court · 1,711 merits · 24.8% grant
  • IJ MMF · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,677 merits · 71.5% grant
  • IJ SEJ · Seattle Immigration Court · 1,725 merits · 30.9% grant
  • IJ BLF · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,734 merits · 79.8% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code LME: 1,695 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge LME's 1,695-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LME at Miami Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,695. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,695 decisions FY2015–2025 (#61 of 1.7K).

Judge LME's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,695, 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 LME'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.