What is Judge NSO's grant rate?

Immigration Judge NSO has an overall grant rate of 16.7% across 323 decisions at the Eloy Immigration Court. The denial rate is 83.3%.

Where does Judge NSO serve?

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

How many cases has Judge NSO decided?

Judge NSO has decided 323 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 54 grants and 269 denials.

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

No. Judge NSO's 83.3% 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 NSO

Name: Immigration Judge NSO - 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: denial rate 83.3% is Judge NSO's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 16.7% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is mid-band at 323 decisions FY2015–2025.

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

16.7%
Asylum grant rate: 83.3%
Asylum denial rate: 323
Asylum decisions

Judge NSO in one line

Judge NSO's asylum grant rate is 16.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 323 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

16.7%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate: 323
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume: -31.6 pp
vs. national average

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"NSO" 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

323merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted54(17%)Denied269(83%)

Statistical data only. Judge NSO's 83.3% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge NSO 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)

16.7% 1434th of 1696 higher than 262 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 %
2023	20	1	19	5.0%
2024	117	29	88	24.8%
2025	186	24	162	12.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge NSO's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge NSO's 16.7% 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 NSO are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
REW	16.8%	+0.1 pp	690	FULL	Houston - Greenspoint Park
RCB	16.8%	+0.1 pp	244	LIGHT	Phoenix
PNM	16.5%	-0.2 pp	266	LIGHT	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
NHT	16.9%	+0.2 pp	148	LIGHT	Florence
JEC	16.5%	-0.2 pp	103	LIGHT	LaSalle
PRM	16.9%	+0.2 pp	59	THIN	Annandale

Same-bench poles at Eloy

Same-bench spread at Eloy: Judge NSO runs 16.7% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 AWS · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · 323 merits · 43.7% grant
IJ LB7 · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 323 merits · 72.8% grant
IJ KFL · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 324 merits · 39.8% grant
IJ MAF · Philadelphia Immigration Court · 322 merits · 49.4% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code NSO (16.7%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge NSO's 323-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ NSO at Eloy Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 83.3%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 323 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge NSO's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 83.3%, 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 NSO'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.