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Immigration Judge LOC

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 LOC's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 547 decisions FY2015–2025 (#506 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

37.1%
Asylum grant rate
62.9%
Asylum denial rate
547
Asylum decisions

Judge LOC in one line

Judge LOC's asylum grant rate is 37.1% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 547 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

37.1%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
547
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-11.2 pp
vs. national average
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"LOC" 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 LOC's 62.9% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LOC 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)

37.1% 927th of 1696 higher than 769 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 4 4 0 100.0%
2017 10 0 10 0.0%
2018 11 0 11 0.0%
2019 138 24 114 17.4%
2020 71 19 52 26.8%
2021 53 17 36 32.1%
2022 104 57 47 54.8%
2023 86 44 42 51.2%
2024 70 38 32 54.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LOC'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 37.1% (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 LOC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JMF 37.1% same 840 FULL Boston
KLD 37.1% same 490 LIGHT Tucson
DKJ 37.1% same 89 THIN Baltimore
ATP 37.2% +0.1 pp 682 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
MIA 37.0% -0.1 pp 108 LIGHT Philadelphia
LSY 37.0% -0.1 pp 92 THIN Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at San Diego

Same-bench spread at San Diego: Judge LOC runs 37.1% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 LLR · San Francisco Immigration Court · 547 merits · 90.3% grant
  • IJ ADM · San Antonio Immigration Court · 548 merits · 51.5% grant
  • IJ LSF · Phoenix Immigration Court · 549 merits · 48.3% grant
  • IJ JSA · Cleveland Immigration Court · 550 merits · 60.7% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LOC at San Diego Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 547 decisions FY2015–2025 (#506 of 1.7K).

Judge LOC'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 LOC'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.