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Immigration Judge RKL

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 81.3% is Judge RKL's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 18.7% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is mid-band at 326 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

18.7%
Asylum grant rate
81.3%
Asylum denial rate
326
Asylum decisions

Judge RKL in one line

Judge RKL's asylum grant rate is 18.7% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 326 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

18.7%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
326
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-29.6 pp
vs. national average
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"RKL" 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 RKL's 81.3% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RKL 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)

18.7% 1387th of 1696 higher than 309 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RKL's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RKL's 18.7% 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 RKL are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
LCF 18.7% same 337 LIGHT Laredo
JCM 18.7% same 203 LIGHT Indianapolis
DTB 18.6% -0.1 pp 738 FULL Stewart
EFC 18.6% -0.1 pp 430 LIGHT Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
CGW 18.6% -0.1 pp 172 LIGHT Adelanto
MP1 18.6% -0.1 pp 59 THIN El Paso

Same-bench poles at Annandale

Same-bench spread at Annandale: Judge RKL runs 18.7% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ LOB
63.3%
267 merits
Bench low
IJ RC1
5.3%
76 merits

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 MKW · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 325 merits · 36.3% grant
  • IJ SDC · Portland Immigration Court · 327 merits · 49.5% grant
  • IJ MWN · San Francisco Immigration Court · 327 merits · 50.2% grant
  • IJ CHJ · Annandale Immigration Court · 325 merits · 54.8% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code RKL (18.7%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge RKL's 326-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RKL at Annandale Immigration Court (Annex); asylum denial rate 81.3%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 326 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RKL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 81.3%, 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 RKL'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.