What is Judge NBM's grant rate?

Immigration Judge NBM has an overall grant rate of 33.4% across 1,087 decisions at the Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court. The denial rate is 66.6%.

Where does Judge NBM serve?

Judge NBM serves at the Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge NBM decided?

Judge NBM has decided 1,087 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 363 grants and 724 denials.

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

No. Judge NBM's 66.6% 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.

Judges → Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court

Immigration judge · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court

Immigration Judge NBM

Name: Immigration Judge NBM - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,087 merits decisions place Judge NBM among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,087 decisions FY2015–2025 (#159 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

33.4%
Asylum grant rate: 66.6%
Asylum denial rate: 1,087
Asylum decisions

Judge NBM in one line

Judge NBM's asylum grant rate is 33.4% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,087 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

33.4%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,087
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -14.9 pp
vs. national average

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"NBM" 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

1,087merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted363(33%)Denied724(67%)

Statistical data only. Judge NBM's 66.6% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge NBM 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)

33.4% 1019th of 1696 higher than 677 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 %
2016	2	0	2	0.0%
2018	1	0	1	0.0%
2019	178	31	147	17.4%
2020	113	27	86	23.9%
2021	95	6	89	6.3%
2022	117	31	86	26.5%
2023	132	56	76	42.4%
2024	83	45	38	54.2%
2025	366	167	199	45.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge NBM'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 33.4% (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 NBM are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MES	33.4%	same	293	LIGHT	Conroe
SJB	33.3%	-0.1 pp	387	LIGHT	Indianapolis
AHO	33.3%	-0.1 pp	357	LIGHT	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
RRW	33.5%	+0.1 pp	272	LIGHT	Fort Snelling
AMO	33.3%	-0.1 pp	249	LIGHT	Boston
CAH	33.3%	-0.1 pp	114	LIGHT	Laredo

Same-bench poles at Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street

Same-bench spread at Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street: Judge NBM runs 33.4% - 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 DHS · Dallas Immigration Court · 1,084 merits · 48.2% grant
IJ DHP · Detroit Immigration Court · 1,092 merits · 51.4% grant
IJ DDE · Seattle Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 33.0% grant
IJ MAC · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 49.9% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code NBM: 1,087 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge NBM's 1,087-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ NBM at Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,087. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,087 decisions FY2015–2025 (#159 of 1.7K).

Judge NBM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,087, 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 NBM'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.