Immigration judge · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court

Immigration Judge MML

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge MML's EOIR row. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 56.8% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

56.8%
Asylum grant rate
43.2%
Asylum denial rate
331
Asylum decisions

Judge MML in one line

Judge MML's asylum grant rate is 56.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 331 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

56.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
331
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+8.5 pp
vs. national average
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"MML" 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 MML 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)

56.8% 467th of 1696 higher than 1,229 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 64 37 27 57.8%
2016 61 31 30 50.8%
2017 85 53 32 62.4%
2018 103 60 43 58.3%
2019 18 7 11 38.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MML's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge MML's 56.8% 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 MML are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
TSM 56.8% same 1,050 FULL New York - Varick Street
SBY 56.8% same 687 FULL Sterling
DNM 56.8% same 579 FULL Annandale
JBP 56.8% same 139 LIGHT Annandale
LIH 56.7% -0.1 pp 767 FULL Miami
PKB 56.7% -0.1 pp 353 LIGHT Cleveland

Same-bench poles at Los Angeles - West

Same-bench spread at Los Angeles - West: Judge MML runs 56.8% - 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 MBT · Pearsall Immigration Court · 331 merits · 26.6% grant
  • IJ RWV · Annandale Immigration Court (Annex) · 331 merits · 25.7% grant
  • IJ LJM · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 331 merits · 4.2% grant
  • IJ LSY · Boston Immigration Court · 332 merits · 38.0% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge MML at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MML at Los Angeles - West Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 331 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge MML's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 MML'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.