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Immigration Judge MH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge MH's 92.8% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 92.8% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

92.8%
Asylum grant rate
7.2%
Asylum denial rate
387
Asylum decisions

Judge MH in one line

Judge MH's asylum grant rate is 92.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 387 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

92.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
387
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+44.5 pp
vs. national average
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"MH" 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 MH's 92.8% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge MH 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)

92.8% 10th of 1696 higher than 1,686 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 28 28 0 100.0%
2016 56 42 14 75.0%
2017 113 108 5 95.6%
2018 167 160 7 95.8%
2019 23 21 2 91.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge MH's 92.8% 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 MH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
ILD 92.9% +0.1 pp 28 THIN Philadelphia
CSD 92.4% -0.4 pp 761 FULL San Francisco
PRM 93.3% +0.5 pp 1,053 FULL Sacramento
GTC 93.3% +0.5 pp 726 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
AMS 92.3% -0.5 pp 26 THIN Chelmsford
TAB 92.2% -0.6 pp 1,462 FULL New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge MH runs 92.8% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ SML
95.5%
1,257 merits
Bench low
IJ ASM
4.5%
264 merits

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 JTD · Sterling Immigration Court · 387 merits · 49.9% grant
  • IJ SJB · Indianapolis Immigration Court · 387 merits · 33.3% grant
  • IJ JNC · Harlingen Immigration Court · 386 merits · 51.0% grant
  • IJ DEW · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 389 merits · 55.5% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge MH's 387-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MH at San Francisco Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 92.8%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 387 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge MH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 92.8%, 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 MH'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.