Immigration judge · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

Immigration Judge MMC

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge MMC's 74.5% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 74.5% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

74.5%
Asylum grant rate
25.5%
Asylum denial rate
196
Asylum decisions

Judge MMC in one line

Judge MMC's asylum grant rate is 74.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 196 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

74.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
196
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+26.2 pp
vs. national average
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"MMC" 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 MMC's 74.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge MMC 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)

74.5% 158th of 1696 higher than 1,538 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 98 74 24 75.5%
2016 35 26 9 74.3%
2017 22 15 7 68.2%
2018 28 19 9 67.9%
2019 6 5 1 83.3%
2020 7 7 0 100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MMC's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge MMC's 74.5% 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 MMC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
BND 74.5% same 55 THIN Cleveland
LES 74.6% +0.1 pp 1,112 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
DNO 74.4% -0.1 pp 465 LIGHT New York - Varick Street
EMZ 74.6% +0.1 pp 173 LIGHT San Antonio
JJS 74.3% -0.2 pp 421 LIGHT Concord
SDC 74.7% +0.2 pp 178 LIGHT Portland

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge MMC runs 74.5% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 LEM · Portland Immigration Court (Detained) · 196 merits · 71.9% grant
  • IJ VPG · Chicago Immigration Court · 196 merits · 59.7% grant
  • IJ BNR · Miami Immigration Court · 196 merits · 29.1% grant
  • IJ RDB · Elizabeth Immigration Court · 196 merits · 12.8% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge MMC at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MMC at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 74.5%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 196 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge MMC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 74.5%, 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 MMC'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.