What is Judge MB's grant rate?

Immigration Judge MB has an overall grant rate of 82.5% across 80 decisions at the Pearsall Immigration Court. The denial rate is 17.5%.

Where does Judge MB serve?

Judge MB serves at the Pearsall Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge MB decided?

Judge MB has decided 80 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 66 grants and 14 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge MB's 82.5% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge MB

Name: Immigration Judge MB - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge MB's 82.5% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 82.5% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

82.5%
Asylum grant rate: 17.5%
Asylum denial rate: 80
Asylum decisions

Judge MB in one line

Judge MB's asylum grant rate is 82.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 80 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

82.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 80
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: +34.2 pp
vs. national average

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"MB" 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

80merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted66(83%)Denied14(18%)

Statistical data only. Judge MB's 82.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge MB 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)

82.5% 92nd of 1696 higher than 1,604 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	49	41	8	83.7%
2016	26	22	4	84.6%
2017	3	2	1	66.7%
2020	2	1	1	50.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MB's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge MB's 82.5% grant rate, an upper-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge MB are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MMT	82.5%	same	1,062	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
IJC	82.5%	same	852	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
CAK	82.4%	-0.1 pp	284	LIGHT	San Francisco
PAW	82.6%	+0.1 pp	258	LIGHT	San Francisco
GAR	82.3%	-0.2 pp	886	FULL	Chicago
DBS	82.8%	+0.3 pp	1,810	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Pearsall

Same-bench spread at Pearsall: Judge MB runs 82.5% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

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

IJ EMB · Dallas Immigration Court · 80 merits · 68.8% grant
IJ HRG · Conroe Immigration Court · 80 merits · 41.2% grant
IJ PJM · Orlando Immigration Court · 80 merits · 41.2% grant
IJ KHJ · Phoenix Immigration Court · 80 merits · 22.5% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge MB's 80-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MB at Pearsall Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 82.5%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 80 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge MB's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 82.5%, 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 MB'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.