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Immigration Judge MWA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,451 merits decisions place Judge MWA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,451 decisions FY2015–2025 (#89 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

31.3%
Asylum grant rate
68.7%
Asylum denial rate
1,451
Asylum decisions

Judge MWA in one line

Judge MWA's asylum grant rate is 31.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,451 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

31.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
1,451
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-17.0 pp
vs. national average
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"MWA" 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 MWA's 68.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge MWA 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)

31.3% 1073rd of 1696 higher than 623 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 1 0 1 0.0%
2018 30 7 23 23.3%
2019 379 55 324 14.5%
2020 322 69 253 21.4%
2021 55 18 37 32.7%
2022 100 41 59 41.0%
2023 250 101 149 40.4%
2024 128 74 54 57.8%
2025 186 89 97 47.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge MWA'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 31.3% (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 MWA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
LCH 31.3% same 1,257 FULL Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
KQG 31.3% same 668 FULL Baltimore
ARL 31.4% +0.1 pp 1,237 FULL Omaha
LFZ 31.4% +0.1 pp 102 LIGHT New Orleans
LRM 31.4% +0.1 pp 35 THIN Tucson
EJT 31.2% -0.1 pp 202 LIGHT Pearsall

Same-bench poles at Miami

Same-bench spread at Miami: Judge MWA runs 31.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ MAU
69.3%
456 merits
Bench low
IJ CAM
17.5%
154 merits

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 TAB · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,462 merits · 92.2% grant
  • IJ SEB · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 1,465 merits · 66.6% grant
  • IJ AKN · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 1,432 merits · 36.6% grant
  • IJ SHC · Boston Immigration Court · 1,432 merits · 50.6% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code MWA: 1,451 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge MWA's 1,451-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ MWA at Miami Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,451. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,451 decisions FY2015–2025 (#89 of 1.7K).

Judge MWA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,451, 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 MWA'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.