Immigration judge · Boston Immigration Court

Immigration Judge MBH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 25 merits decisions make Judge MBH a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 60.0% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

60.0%
Asylum grant rate
40.0%
Asylum denial rate
25
Asylum decisions

Judge MBH in one line

Judge MBH's asylum grant rate is 60.0% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 25 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

60.0%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
25
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
+11.7 pp
vs. national average
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"MBH" 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 MBH's 60.0% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge MBH 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)

60% 374th of 1696 higher than 1,322 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 %
2021 1 1 0 100.0%
2022 8 3 5 37.5%
2023 16 11 5 68.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MBH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge MBH's 60.0% 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 MBH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
EJT 60.0% same 912 FULL San Antonio
DDR 60.0% same 855 FULL Memphis
JD1 60.0% same 615 FULL Los Angeles - West
JDR 60.0% same 125 LIGHT San Juan
AMO 60.0% same 90 THIN Chelmsford
DB 60.1% +0.1 pp 1,101 FULL Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard

Same-bench poles at Boston

Same-bench spread at Boston: Judge MBH runs 60.0% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MBH at Boston Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 25. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 25 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge MBH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 25, 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 MBH'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.