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Immigration Judge OEA

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 OEA's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 34.5% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

34.5%
Asylum grant rate
65.5%
Asylum denial rate
226
Asylum decisions

Judge OEA in one line

Judge OEA's asylum grant rate is 34.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 226 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

34.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
226
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-13.8 pp
vs. national average
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"OEA" 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 OEA's 65.5% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge OEA 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)

34.5% 992nd of 1696 higher than 704 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 1 0 100.0%
2016 1 0 1 0.0%
2018 1 0 1 0.0%
2020 6 0 6 0.0%
2021 17 10 7 58.8%
2022 39 14 25 35.9%
2023 66 31 35 47.0%
2024 18 14 4 77.8%
2025 77 8 69 10.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge OEA'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 34.5% (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 OEA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MKN 34.5% same 58 THIN Detroit
AAV 34.6% +0.1 pp 26 THIN Elizabeth
JNM 34.7% +0.2 pp 308 LIGHT Houston - S. Gessner Road
PAD 34.3% -0.2 pp 140 LIGHT Otay Mesa
JOC 34.7% +0.2 pp 95 THIN Eloy
JCL 34.3% -0.2 pp 70 THIN Honolulu

Same-bench poles at San Diego

Same-bench spread at San Diego: Judge OEA runs 34.5% - 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 WAD · Elizabeth Immigration Court · 226 merits · 30.5% grant
  • IJ DAG · Annandale Immigration Court · 226 merits · 27.4% grant
  • IJ SAR · Phoenix Immigration Court · 226 merits · 42.0% grant
  • IJ JLN · Concord Immigration Court · 226 merits · 57.5% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge OEA at San Diego Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ OEA at San Diego Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 226 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge OEA'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 OEA'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.