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Immigration Judge PMT

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,193 merits decisions place Judge PMT among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,193 decisions FY2015–2025 (#21 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

57.4%
Asylum grant rate
42.6%
Asylum denial rate
2,193
Asylum decisions

Judge PMT in one line

Judge PMT's asylum grant rate is 57.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,193 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

57.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
2,193
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+9.1 pp
vs. national average
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"PMT" 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. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge PMT 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)

57.4% 445th of 1696 higher than 1,251 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 %
2017 55 16 39 29.1%
2018 141 31 110 22.0%
2019 228 43 185 18.9%
2020 218 44 174 20.2%
2021 233 91 142 39.1%
2022 179 148 31 82.7%
2023 348 315 33 90.5%
2024 443 358 85 80.8%
2025 348 213 135 61.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge PMT's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge PMT's 57.4% 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 PMT are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
BNR 57.4% same 455 LIGHT Orlando
JME 57.3% -0.1 pp 1,738 FULL New York - Broadway
ACC 57.5% +0.1 pp 855 FULL Memphis
BTR 57.5% +0.1 pp 854 FULL Otero
NAR 57.5% +0.1 pp 466 LIGHT Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
MMN 57.5% +0.1 pp 315 LIGHT Newark

Same-bench poles at Salt Lake City

Same-bench spread at Salt Lake City: Judge PMT runs 57.4% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ RLF
88.9%
45 merits
Bench low
IJ SSL
42.3%
26 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 PTW · Baltimore Immigration Court · 2,194 merits · 39.2% grant
  • IJ FMT · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 2,174 merits · 25.9% grant
  • IJ EPD · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,213 merits · 79.0% grant
  • IJ JBC · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 2,169 merits · 28.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code PMT: 2,193 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge PMT's 2,193-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PMT at Salt Lake City Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,193. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,193 decisions FY2015–2025 (#21 of 1.7K).

Judge PMT's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,193, 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 PMT'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.