What is Judge RLH's grant rate?

Immigration Judge RLH has an overall grant rate of 36.9% across 1,757 decisions at the Memphis Immigration Court. The denial rate is 63.1%.

Where does Judge RLH serve?

Judge RLH serves at the Memphis Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge RLH decided?

Judge RLH has decided 1,757 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 648 grants and 1,109 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge RLH's 63.1% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration judge · Memphis Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RLH

Name: Immigration Judge RLH - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,757 merits decisions place Judge RLH among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,757 decisions FY2015–2025 (#54 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

36.9%
Asylum grant rate: 63.1%
Asylum denial rate: 1,757
Asylum decisions

Judge RLH in one line

Judge RLH's asylum grant rate is 36.9% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,757 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

36.9%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,757
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -11.4 pp
vs. national average

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"RLH" 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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

1,757merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted648(37%)Denied1,109(63%)

Statistical data only. Judge RLH's 63.1% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RLH 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)

36.9% 932nd of 1696 higher than 764 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 %
2015	49	27	22	55.1%
2016	142	26	116	18.3%
2017	239	43	196	18.0%
2018	328	84	244	25.6%
2019	367	93	274	25.3%
2020	176	59	117	33.5%
2021	30	14	16	46.7%
2022	103	69	34	67.0%
2023	76	62	14	81.6%
2024	110	83	27	75.5%
2025	137	88	49	64.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RLH'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 36.9% (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 RLH are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
SCN	36.9%	same	1,755	FULL	Newark
LCB	36.9%	same	510	FULL	Sterling
MIA	37.0%	+0.1 pp	108	LIGHT	Philadelphia
LSY	37.0%	+0.1 pp	92	THIN	Chelmsford
RCJ	36.8%	-0.1 pp	38	THIN	Dallas
JWH	36.7%	-0.2 pp	2,128	HEAVY	Kansas City

Same-bench poles at Memphis

Same-bench spread at Memphis: Judge RLH runs 36.9% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 SCN · Newark Immigration Court · 1,755 merits · 36.9% grant
IJ CM1 · New Orleans Immigration Court · 1,767 merits · 33.7% grant
IJ SGA · Miami Immigration Court · 1,746 merits · 35.2% grant
IJ JME · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,738 merits · 57.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code RLH: 1,757 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge RLH's 1,757-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RLH at Memphis Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,757. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,757 decisions FY2015–2025 (#54 of 1.7K).

Judge RLH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,757, 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 RLH'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.