What is Judge MT's grant rate?

Immigration Judge MT has an overall grant rate of 26.7% across 535 decisions at the Elizabeth Immigration Court. The denial rate is 73.3%.

Where does Judge MT serve?

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

How many cases has Judge MT decided?

Judge MT has decided 535 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 143 grants and 392 denials.

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

No. Judge MT's 73.3% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge MT

Name: Immigration Judge MT - 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: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge MT's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 535 decisions FY2015–2025 (#512 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

26.7%
Asylum grant rate: 73.3%
Asylum denial rate: 535
Asylum decisions

Judge MT in one line

Judge MT's asylum grant rate is 26.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 535 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

26.7%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate: 535
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -21.6 pp
vs. national average

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"MT" 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

535merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted143(27%)Denied392(73%)

Statistical data only. Judge MT's 73.3% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge MT 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)

26.7% 1196th of 1696 higher than 500 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	112	49	63	43.8%
2016	124	41	83	33.1%
2017	88	25	63	28.4%
2018	37	11	26	29.7%
2019	62	6	56	9.7%
2020	64	5	59	7.8%
2021	22	0	22	0.0%
2022	25	6	19	24.0%
2023	1	0	1	0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MT's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge MT's 26.7% grant rate, a lower-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 MT are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CSO	26.7%	same	509	FULL	New York - Varick Street
MBT	26.6%	-0.1 pp	331	LIGHT	Pearsall
RFS	26.8%	+0.1 pp	56	THIN	New York - Federal Plaza
DRD	26.5%	-0.2 pp	2,321	HEAVY	New York - Varick Street
CMR	26.5%	-0.2 pp	849	FULL	Houston - Smith Street
EHM	26.9%	+0.2 pp	657	FULL	Aurora

Same-bench poles at Elizabeth

Same-bench spread at Elizabeth: Judge MT runs 26.7% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 GDJ · New Orleans Immigration Court · 535 merits · 57.0% grant
IJ AKZ · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 534 merits · 45.7% grant
IJ JDV · San Diego Immigration Court · 532 merits · 39.3% grant
IJ JJJ · San Francisco Immigration Court · 532 merits · 81.8% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code MT: 535 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge MT's 535-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MT at Elizabeth Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 535 decisions FY2015–2025 (#512 of 1.7K).

Judge MT'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 MT'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.