Immigration judge · Annandale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RCH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge RCH's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 46.3% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

46.3%
Asylum grant rate
53.7%
Asylum denial rate
328
Asylum decisions

Judge RCH in one line

Judge RCH's asylum grant rate is 46.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 328 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

46.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
328
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-2.0 pp
vs. national average
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"RCH" 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 RCH 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)

46.3% 693rd of 1696 higher than 1,003 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 %
2016 22 14 8 63.6%
2017 67 33 34 49.3%
2018 46 13 33 28.3%
2019 81 21 60 25.9%
2020 37 11 26 29.7%
2021 8 8 0 100.0%
2022 66 52 14 78.8%
2023 1 0 1 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RCH'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 46.3% (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 RCH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
MB 46.3% same 108 LIGHT Laredo
MTG 46.2% -0.1 pp 649 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
DMP 46.2% -0.1 pp 353 LIGHT Houston - S. Gessner Road
RAI 46.2% -0.1 pp 39 THIN San Diego
RLH 46.2% -0.1 pp 39 THIN Los Angeles - West
PV 46.4% +0.1 pp 1,005 FULL Hartford

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 60 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge RCH is at 46.3%.

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 KMR · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 328 merits · 51.5% grant
  • IJ LSM · Memphis Immigration Court · 328 merits · 53.4% grant
  • IJ SDC · Portland Immigration Court · 327 merits · 49.5% grant
  • IJ MWN · San Francisco Immigration Court · 327 merits · 50.2% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RCH at Annandale Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 328 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RCH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 RCH'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.