What is Judge OMB's grant rate?

Immigration Judge OMB has an overall grant rate of 67.8% across 1,897 decisions at the Boston Immigration Court. The denial rate is 32.2%.

Where does Judge OMB serve?

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

How many cases has Judge OMB decided?

Judge OMB has decided 1,897 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,287 grants and 610 denials.

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

No. Judge OMB's 67.8% 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 OMB

Name: Immigration Judge OMB - 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: 1,897 merits decisions place Judge OMB among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,897 decisions FY2015–2025 (#43 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

67.8%
Asylum grant rate: 32.2%
Asylum denial rate: 1,897
Asylum decisions

Judge OMB in one line

Judge OMB's asylum grant rate is 67.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,897 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

67.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,897
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +19.5 pp
vs. national average

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"OMB" 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

1,897merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,287(68%)Denied610(32%)

Statistical data only. Judge OMB's 67.8% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge OMB 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)

67.8% 242nd of 1696 higher than 1,454 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	51	38	13	74.5%
2016	55	49	6	89.1%
2017	141	98	43	69.5%
2018	139	95	44	68.3%
2019	239	130	109	54.4%
2020	192	110	82	57.3%
2021	73	46	27	63.0%
2022	224	199	25	88.8%
2023	268	194	74	72.4%
2024	199	157	42	78.9%
2025	316	171	145	54.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge OMB's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge OMB's 67.8% 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 OMB are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
EHC	67.8%	same	732	FULL	Chicago
MBP	67.8%	same	115	LIGHT	Chicago
JRS	67.7%	-0.1 pp	294	LIGHT	San Francisco
SDS	67.7%	-0.1 pp	31	THIN	Boston
JLP	68.0%	+0.2 pp	2,100	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
ESS	67.6%	-0.2 pp	994	FULL	Chicago

Same-bench poles at Boston

Same-bench spread at Boston: Judge OMB runs 67.8% - 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 VAW · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,898 merits · 71.0% grant
IJ SLR · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,905 merits · 36.0% grant
IJ JCA · Philadelphia Immigration Court · 1,888 merits · 55.2% grant
IJ MLY · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,888 merits · 84.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code OMB: 1,897 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge OMB's 1,897-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ OMB at Boston Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,897. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,897 decisions FY2015–2025 (#43 of 1.7K).

Judge OMB's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,897, 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 OMB'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.