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Immigration Judge LSA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 50 merits decisions make Judge LSA a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 42.0% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.0%
Asylum grant rate
58.0%
Asylum denial rate
50
Asylum decisions

Judge LSA in one line

Judge LSA's asylum grant rate is 42.0% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 50 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

42.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
50
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-6.3 pp
vs. national average
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"LSA" 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. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge LSA 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)

42% 797th of 1696 higher than 899 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 %
2022 8 5 3 62.5%
2023 42 16 26 38.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LSA'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 42.0% (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 LSA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JBL 42.0% same 2,506 HEAVY New Orleans
SAR 42.0% same 226 LIGHT Phoenix
JFW 42.1% +0.1 pp 648 FULL Seattle
GSS 41.9% -0.1 pp 609 FULL Santa Ana
BCM 42.1% +0.1 pp 423 LIGHT Sterling
JNW 41.9% -0.1 pp 372 LIGHT Santa Ana

Same-bench poles at Boston

Same-bench spread at Boston: Judge LSA runs 42.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ KFL · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 50 merits · 40.0% grant
  • IJ LWP · San Francisco Immigration Court · 50 merits · 40.0% grant
  • IJ GET · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 50 merits · 24.0% grant
  • IJ RML · Oakdale Immigration Court · 50 merits · 22.0% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LSA at Boston Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 50. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge LSA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 50, 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 LSA'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.