What is Judge MJS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge MJS has an overall grant rate of 45.9% across 2,034 decisions at the Boston Immigration Court. The denial rate is 54.1%.

Where does Judge MJS serve?

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

How many cases has Judge MJS decided?

Judge MJS has decided 2,034 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 933 grants and 1,101 denials.

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

No. Judge MJS's 45.9% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge MJS

Name: Immigration Judge MJS - 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: 2,034 merits decisions place Judge MJS among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,034 decisions FY2015–2025 (#31 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

45.9%
Asylum grant rate: 54.1%
Asylum denial rate: 2,034
Asylum decisions

Judge MJS in one line

Judge MJS's asylum grant rate is 45.9% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 2,034 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

45.9%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 2,034
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -2.4 pp
vs. national average

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"MJS" 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

2,034merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted933(46%)Denied1,101(54%)

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 MJS 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)

45.9% 709th of 1696 higher than 987 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	2	0	2	0.0%
2017	54	28	26	51.9%
2018	43	11	32	25.6%
2019	151	57	94	37.7%
2020	196	96	100	49.0%
2021	106	64	42	60.4%
2022	342	152	190	44.4%
2023	428	175	253	40.9%
2024	172	138	34	80.2%
2025	540	212	328	39.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MJS'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 45.9% (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 MJS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
IJN	45.9%	same	590	FULL	Memphis
DMJ	45.9%	same	283	LIGHT	Baltimore
CEP	45.9%	same	257	LIGHT	Memphis
RKL	45.9%	same	218	LIGHT	Annandale
AMS	45.9%	same	85	THIN	Chelmsford
RR1	45.8%	-0.1 pp	201	LIGHT	Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Boston

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 47 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge MJS is at 45.9%.

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 NB · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,023 merits · 89.4% grant
IJ JCG · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 2,049 merits · 49.9% grant
IJ CSG · San Francisco Immigration Court · 2,016 merits · 78.4% grant
IJ JML · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 1,979 merits · 30.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code MJS: 2,034 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge MJS's 2,034-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MJS at Boston Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,034. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,034 decisions FY2015–2025 (#31 of 1.7K).

Judge MJS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,034, 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 MJS'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.