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Immigration Judge RJA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 692 merits decisions place Judge RJA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 692 decisions FY2015–2025 (#368 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

28.2%
Asylum grant rate
71.8%
Asylum denial rate
692
Asylum decisions

Judge RJA in one line

Judge RJA's asylum grant rate is 28.2% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 692 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

28.2%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
692
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-20.1 pp
vs. national average
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"RJA" 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 RJA's 71.8% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RJA 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)

28.2% 1159th of 1696 higher than 537 of 1,696 judges

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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 8 6 2 75.0%
2016 65 33 32 50.8%
2017 139 63 76 45.3%
2018 218 53 165 24.3%
2019 260 38 222 14.6%
2022 1 1 0 100.0%
2023 1 1 0 100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RJA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RJA's 28.2% grant rate, a lower-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 RJA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
AKP 28.2% same 124 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
EBS 28.2% same 39 THIN Houston - Smith Street
SEG 28.1% -0.1 pp 1,408 FULL Houston - Smith Street
JAM 28.1% -0.1 pp 64 THIN Harlingen
JMN 28.1% -0.1 pp 32 THIN Buffalo
LOC 28.3% +0.1 pp 559 FULL Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Memphis

Same-bench spread at Memphis: Judge RJA runs 28.2% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ CMK
69.2%
65 merits
Bench low
IJ JAM
2.1%
47 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 MJO · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 692 merits · 45.5% grant
  • IJ BTP · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 693 merits · 42.6% grant
  • IJ REW · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 690 merits · 16.8% grant
  • IJ DCV · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 694 merits · 62.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code RJA: 692 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge RJA's 692-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RJA at Memphis Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 692. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 692 decisions FY2015–2025 (#368 of 1.7K).

Judge RJA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 692, 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 RJA'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.