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Immigration Judge RJ1

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge RJ1's 73.3% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 577 decisions FY2015–2025 (#477 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

73.3%
Asylum grant rate
26.7%
Asylum denial rate
577
Asylum decisions

Judge RJ1 in one line

Judge RJ1's asylum grant rate is 73.3% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 577 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

73.3%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
577
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+25.0 pp
vs. national average
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"RJ1" 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 RJ1's 73.3% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RJ1 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)

73.3% 170th of 1696 higher than 1,526 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 %
2019 1 0 1 0.0%
2020 1 0 1 0.0%
2021 13 10 3 76.9%
2022 31 22 9 71.0%
2023 102 78 24 76.5%
2024 118 81 37 68.6%
2025 311 232 79 74.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RJ1's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RJ1's 73.3% grant rate, an upper-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 RJ1 are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
ARD 73.3% same 829 FULL Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
CCJ 73.3% same 75 THIN Newark
ENA 73.3% same 45 THIN New York - Broadway
CAE 73.4% +0.1 pp 417 LIGHT Chicago
DCW 73.1% -0.2 pp 833 FULL Cleveland
NBW 73.1% -0.2 pp 438 LIGHT Santa Ana

Same-bench poles at Orlando

Same-bench spread at Orlando: Judge RJ1 runs 73.3% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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 KJR · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 577 merits · 55.3% grant
  • IJ CPE · Concord Immigration Court · 577 merits · 52.2% grant
  • IJ MLL · Tucson Immigration Court · 577 merits · 24.3% grant
  • IJ JML · Adelanto Immigration Court · 577 merits · 19.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code RJ1: 577 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RJ1 at Orlando Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 73.3%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 577 decisions FY2015–2025 (#477 of 1.7K).

Judge RJ1's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 73.3%, 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 RJ1'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.