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Immigration Judge RDD

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 RDD's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 34.0% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

34.0%
Asylum grant rate
66.0%
Asylum denial rate
312
Asylum decisions

Judge RDD in one line

Judge RDD's asylum grant rate is 34.0% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 312 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

34.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
312
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-14.3 pp
vs. national average
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"RDD" 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 RDD's 66.0% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RDD 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)

34% 1004th of 1696 higher than 692 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 %
2024 167 73 94 43.7%
2025 145 33 112 22.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RDD'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 34.0% (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 RDD are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
REY 34.0% same 741 FULL Seattle
CNF 34.0% same 420 LIGHT Tacoma
NAM 34.0% same 244 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
NJP 34.0% same 244 LIGHT Omaha
JG 33.9% -0.1 pp 1,266 FULL Orlando
ING 33.9% -0.1 pp 866 FULL Santa Ana

Same-bench poles at Cleveland

Same-bench spread at Cleveland: Judge RDD runs 34.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 THD · Hartford Immigration Court · 312 merits · 59.0% grant
  • IJ EDL · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 313 merits · 47.9% grant
  • IJ SBF · Stewart Immigration Court · 311 merits · 17.0% grant
  • IJ JAN · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 311 merits · 57.9% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RDD at Cleveland Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 312 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RDD'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 RDD'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.