What is Judge PTW's grant rate?

Immigration Judge PTW has an overall grant rate of 39.2% across 2,194 decisions at the Baltimore Immigration Court. The denial rate is 60.8%.

Where does Judge PTW serve?

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

How many cases has Judge PTW decided?

Judge PTW has decided 2,194 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 860 grants and 1,334 denials.

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

No. Judge PTW's 60.8% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge PTW

Name: Immigration Judge PTW - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,194 merits decisions place Judge PTW among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,194 decisions FY2015–2025 (#20 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

39.2%
Asylum grant rate: 60.8%
Asylum denial rate: 2,194
Asylum decisions

Judge PTW in one line

Judge PTW's asylum grant rate is 39.2% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 2,194 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

39.2%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 2,194
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -9.1 pp
vs. national average

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"PTW" 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

2,194merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted860(39%)Denied1,334(61%)

Statistical data only. Judge PTW's 60.8% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge PTW 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)

39.2% 872nd of 1696 higher than 824 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	200	72	128	36.0%
2016	128	75	53	58.6%
2017	189	115	74	60.8%
2018	410	182	228	44.4%
2019	564	189	375	33.5%
2020	353	87	266	24.6%
2021	278	95	183	34.2%
2022	72	45	27	62.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge PTW'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 39.2% (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 PTW are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
DCA	39.2%	same	283	LIGHT	Portland
GEP	39.2%	same	194	LIGHT	Chelmsford
JDV	39.3%	+0.1 pp	532	FULL	San Diego
RPO	39.3%	+0.1 pp	28	THIN	Elizabeth
JMM	39.1%	-0.1 pp	1,010	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
JJO	39.1%	-0.1 pp	719	FULL	Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Baltimore

Same-bench spread at Baltimore: Judge PTW runs 39.2% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 PMT · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 2,193 merits · 57.4% grant
IJ EPD · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,213 merits · 79.0% grant
IJ FMT · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 2,174 merits · 25.9% grant
IJ FGL · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,218 merits · 90.6% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code PTW: 2,194 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge PTW's 2,194-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PTW at Baltimore Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,194. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,194 decisions FY2015–2025 (#20 of 1.7K).

Judge PTW's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,194, 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 PTW'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.