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Immigration Judge PAW

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge PAW's 82.6% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 82.6% (above the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

82.6%
Asylum grant rate
17.4%
Asylum denial rate
258
Asylum decisions

Judge PAW in one line

Judge PAW's asylum grant rate is 82.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 258 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

82.6%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
258
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
+34.3 pp
vs. national average
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"PAW" 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 PAW's 82.6% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge PAW 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)

82.6% 89th of 1696 higher than 1,607 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 55 48 7 87.3%
2016 145 123 22 84.8%
2017 58 42 16 72.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge PAW's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge PAW's 82.6% 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 PAW are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MMT 82.5% -0.1 pp 1,062 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
IJC 82.5% -0.1 pp 852 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
MB 82.5% -0.1 pp 80 THIN Pearsall
CAK 82.4% -0.2 pp 284 LIGHT San Francisco
DBS 82.8% +0.2 pp 1,810 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
ACL 82.8% +0.2 pp 787 FULL San Francisco

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge PAW runs 82.6% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ SML
95.5%
1,257 merits
Bench low
IJ ASM
4.5%
264 merits

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 CEP · Memphis Immigration Court · 257 merits · 45.9% grant
  • IJ TC · Miami Immigration Court · 257 merits · 28.8% grant
  • IJ DHG · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 257 merits · 23.3% grant
  • IJ CRC · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 256 merits · 83.6% grant

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

Read our methodology - how Judge PAW's 258-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PAW at San Francisco Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 82.6%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 258 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge PAW's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 82.6%, 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 PAW'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.