Immigration Judge RFS

Case Insights: Judge RFS

Immigration Judge RFS has issued 2,405 recorded decisions at the ULS in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 1,974 resulted in relief granted (82.1%), 6 were denied (0.2%), and 425 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (17.7%). That volume places Judge RFS among a substantial docket at the ULS.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 81.9 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as grant-leaning relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.

The ULS itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge RFS's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for ULS lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.