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Immigration Judge PMT

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 45 merits decisions make Judge PMT a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 15.6% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 45 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

15.6%
Asylum grant rate
84.4%
Asylum denial rate
45
Asylum decisions

Judge PMT in one line

Judge PMT's asylum grant rate is 15.6% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 45 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

15.6%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
45
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-32.7 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. Judge PMT's 84.4% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. 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)

15.6% 1456th of 1696 higher than 240 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 %
2018 1 1 0 100.0%
2019 44 6 38 13.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge PMT's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge PMT's 15.6% 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 PMT are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
VBM 15.6% same 192 LIGHT San Antonio
SME 15.6% same 180 LIGHT Chicago
DHF 15.6% same 109 LIGHT Oakdale
JGC 15.6% same 32 THIN Conroe
MEC 15.6% same 32 THIN Fort Snelling
ECS 15.5% -0.1 pp 116 LIGHT Buffalo

Same-bench poles at Tacoma

Same-bench spread at Tacoma: Judge PMT runs 15.6% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ AED
39.5%
43 merits
Bench low
IJ KWR
11.1%
72 merits

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code PMT (15.6%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge PMT's 45-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PMT at Tacoma Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 45. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 45 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge PMT's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 45, 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.