What is Judge MLE's grant rate?

Immigration Judge MLE has an overall grant rate of 49.5% across 851 decisions at the Charlotte Immigration Court. The denial rate is 50.5%.

Where does Judge MLE serve?

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

How many cases has Judge MLE decided?

Judge MLE has decided 851 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 421 grants and 430 denials.

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

No. Judge MLE's 49.5% 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 MLE

Name: Immigration Judge MLE - 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: 851 merits decisions place Judge MLE among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 851 decisions FY2015–2025 (#268 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

49.5%
Asylum grant rate: 50.5%
Asylum denial rate: 851
Asylum decisions

Judge MLE in one line

Judge MLE's asylum grant rate is 49.5% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 851 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

49.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 851
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +1.2 pp
vs. national average

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"MLE" 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

851merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted421(49%)Denied430(51%)

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 MLE 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)

49.5% 628th of 1696 higher than 1,068 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%
2016	2	0	2	0.0%
2017	2	0	2	0.0%
2018	6	1	5	16.7%
2019	15	2	13	13.3%
2020	14	4	10	28.6%
2021	7	0	7	0.0%
2022	149	47	102	31.5%
2023	249	109	140	43.8%
2024	191	123	68	64.4%
2025	214	135	79	63.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MLE'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 49.5% (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 MLE are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
AAD	49.5%	same	515	FULL	New York - Broadway
SDC	49.5%	same	327	LIGHT	Portland
MBH	49.5%	same	95	THIN	Annandale
CDK	49.4%	-0.1 pp	680	FULL	Dallas
MAF	49.4%	-0.1 pp	322	LIGHT	Philadelphia
JNO	49.7%	+0.2 pp	700	FULL	Cleveland

Same-bench poles at Charlotte

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 27 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge MLE is at 49.5%.

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 ADL · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 851 merits · 29.1% grant
IJ IJC · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 852 merits · 82.5% grant
IJ CMR · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 849 merits · 26.5% grant
IJ GET · Boston Immigration Court · 854 merits · 50.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code MLE: 851 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge MLE's 851-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MLE at Charlotte Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 851. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 851 decisions FY2015–2025 (#268 of 1.7K).

Judge MLE's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 851, 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 MLE'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.