Immigration judge · Sterling Immigration Court

Immigration Judge LSA

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 LSA's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 42.2% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.2%
Asylum grant rate
57.8%
Asylum denial rate
301
Asylum decisions

Judge LSA in one line

Judge LSA's asylum grant rate is 42.2% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 301 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

42.2%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
301
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-6.1 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)

42.2% 792nd of 1696 higher than 904 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 %
2020 2 0 2 0.0%
2023 9 3 6 33.3%
2024 113 59 54 52.2%
2025 177 65 112 36.7%

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 42.2% (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
AJC 42.2% same 789 FULL San Francisco
DST 42.2% same 83 THIN El Paso
MMT 42.2% same 45 THIN Denver
EAK 42.3% +0.1 pp 846 FULL Baltimore
AKP 42.3% +0.1 pp 673 FULL Imperial
DCA 42.3% +0.1 pp 26 THIN Kansas City

Same-bench poles at Sterling

Same-bench spread at Sterling: Judge LSA runs 42.2% - 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 CHR · San Diego Immigration Court · 301 merits · 63.8% grant
  • IJ EHR · Otay Mesa Immigration Court · 300 merits · 35.0% grant
  • IJ JGC · Port Isabel Immigration Court · 300 merits · 5.7% grant
  • IJ VAB · Otay Mesa Immigration Court · 299 merits · 38.8% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LSA at Sterling Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 301 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge LSA'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 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.