Immigration judge · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court

Immigration Judge MJO

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 692 merits decisions place Judge MJO among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 692 decisions FY2015–2025 (#367 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

45.5%
Asylum grant rate
54.5%
Asylum denial rate
692
Asylum decisions

Judge MJO in one line

Judge MJO's asylum grant rate is 45.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 692 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

45.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
692
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-2.8 pp
vs. national average
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"MJO" 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 MJO 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)

45.5% 720th of 1696 higher than 976 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 %
2022 17 10 7 58.8%
2023 150 91 59 60.7%
2024 133 63 70 47.4%
2025 392 151 241 38.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MJO'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 45.5% (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 MJO are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
HH 45.5% same 627 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
SJC 45.5% same 88 THIN LaSalle
THS 45.4% -0.1 pp 841 FULL Charlotte
JDL 45.6% +0.1 pp 710 FULL Los Angeles - West
CPJ 45.6% +0.1 pp 623 FULL Kansas City
KNL 45.7% +0.2 pp 766 FULL New York - Broadway

Same-bench poles at Houston - Greenspoint Park

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 21 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge MJO is at 45.5%.

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 RJA · Memphis Immigration Court · 692 merits · 28.2% grant
  • IJ BTP · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 693 merits · 42.6% grant
  • IJ DCV · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 694 merits · 62.1% grant
  • IJ JEN · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 689 merits · 43.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code MJO: 692 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 MJO at Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 692. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 692 decisions FY2015–2025 (#367 of 1.7K).

Judge MJO's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 692, 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 MJO'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.