What is Judge NB's grant rate?

Immigration Judge NB has an overall grant rate of 89.4% across 2,023 decisions at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. The denial rate is 10.6%.

Where does Judge NB serve?

Judge NB serves at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge NB decided?

Judge NB has decided 2,023 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,809 grants and 214 denials.

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

No. Judge NB's 89.4% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration judge · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

Immigration Judge NB

Name: Immigration Judge NB - 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: 2,023 merits decisions place Judge NB among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,023 decisions FY2015–2025 (#32 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

89.4%
Asylum grant rate: 10.6%
Asylum denial rate: 2,023
Asylum decisions

Judge NB in one line

Judge NB's asylum grant rate is 89.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,023 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

89.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 2,023
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +41.1 pp
vs. national average

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"NB" 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

2,023merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,809(89%)Denied214(11%)

Statistical data only. Judge NB's 89.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge NB 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)

89.4% 34th of 1696 higher than 1,662 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	383	373	10	97.4%
2016	390	373	17	95.6%
2017	321	285	36	88.8%
2018	288	235	53	81.6%
2019	319	266	53	83.4%
2020	181	152	29	84.0%
2021	38	36	2	94.7%
2022	96	85	11	88.5%
2023	2	2	0	100.0%
2024	2	2	0	100.0%
2025	3	0	3	0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge NB's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge NB's 89.4% 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 NB are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
OLC	89.6%	+0.2 pp	512	FULL	New York - Broadway
CMN	89.1%	-0.3 pp	92	THIN	San Francisco
RJW	89.1%	-0.3 pp	64	THIN	Annandale
PSS	89.9%	+0.5 pp	1,950	FULL	San Francisco
JMP	89.9%	+0.5 pp	711	FULL	Concord
RLF	88.9%	-0.5 pp	45	THIN	Salt Lake City

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge NB runs 89.4% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 CSG · San Francisco Immigration Court · 2,016 merits · 78.4% grant
IJ MJS · Boston Immigration Court · 2,034 merits · 45.9% grant
IJ JCG · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 2,049 merits · 49.9% grant
IJ JML · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 1,979 merits · 30.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code NB: 2,023 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge NB's 2,023-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ NB at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,023. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,023 decisions FY2015–2025 (#32 of 1.7K).

Judge NB's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,023, 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 NB'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.