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Immigration Judge MCA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 784 merits decisions place Judge MCA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 784 decisions FY2015–2025 (#306 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

48.7%
Asylum grant rate
51.3%
Asylum denial rate
784
Asylum decisions

Judge MCA in one line

Judge MCA's asylum grant rate is 48.7% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 784 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

48.7%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
784
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+0.4 pp
vs. national average
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"MCA" 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 MCA 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)

48.7% 645th of 1696 higher than 1,051 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 %
2017 4 3 1 75.0%
2019 104 36 68 34.6%
2020 206 50 156 24.3%
2021 35 7 28 20.0%
2022 32 27 5 84.4%
2023 69 43 26 62.3%
2024 98 81 17 82.7%
2025 236 135 101 57.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MCA'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 48.7% (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 MCA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
LLG 48.7% same 3,102 HEAVY New York - Varick Street
GYH 48.7% same 733 FULL Houston - S. Gessner Road
JD 48.7% same 39 THIN Chicago
KJB 48.8% +0.1 pp 600 FULL Sterling
JLK 48.8% +0.1 pp 510 FULL Sterling
KPG 48.9% +0.2 pp 687 FULL New Orleans

Same-bench poles at Miami

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 44 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge MCA is at 48.7%.

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 PTP · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 784 merits · 54.3% grant
  • IJ JP1 · Otero Immigration Court · 784 merits · 20.8% grant
  • IJ BJJ · Memphis Immigration Court · 783 merits · 60.2% grant
  • IJ ELY · San Francisco Immigration Court · 783 merits · 76.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code MCA: 784 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MCA at Miami Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 784. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 784 decisions FY2015–2025 (#306 of 1.7K).

Judge MCA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 784, 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 MCA'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.