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Immigration Judge LSF

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 LSF's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 549 decisions FY2015–2025 (#502 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

48.3%
Asylum grant rate
51.7%
Asylum denial rate
549
Asylum decisions

Judge LSF in one line

Judge LSF's asylum grant rate is 48.3% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 549 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

48.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
549
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+0.0 pp
vs. national average
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"LSF" 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 LSF 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)

48.3% 652nd of 1696 higher than 1,044 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 26 13 13 50.0%
2016 18 12 6 66.7%
2017 22 12 10 54.5%
2018 48 27 21 56.2%
2019 58 27 31 46.6%
2020 60 22 38 36.7%
2021 16 9 7 56.2%
2022 63 32 31 50.8%
2023 116 42 74 36.2%
2024 107 59 48 55.1%
2025 15 10 5 66.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge LSF'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 48.3% (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 LSF are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SBC 48.3% same 631 FULL Chicago
WMD 48.3% same 29 THIN Baltimore
DHS 48.2% -0.1 pp 1,084 FULL Dallas
CDE 48.4% +0.1 pp 1,849 FULL Chicago
ABK 48.4% +0.1 pp 758 FULL Santa Ana
CJL 48.4% +0.1 pp 659 FULL Portland

Same-bench poles at Phoenix

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 16 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge LSF is at 48.3%.

Bench high
IJ JWR
88.7%
230 merits
Bench low
IJ RCB
16.8%
244 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 ADM · San Antonio Immigration Court · 548 merits · 51.5% grant
  • IJ JSA · Cleveland Immigration Court · 550 merits · 60.7% grant
  • IJ JCL · San Diego Immigration Court · 548 merits · 26.3% grant
  • IJ LOC · San Diego Immigration Court · 547 merits · 37.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code LSF: 549 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge LSF's 549-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ LSF at Phoenix Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 549 decisions FY2015–2025 (#502 of 1.7K).

Judge LSF'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 LSF'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.