Immigration judge · Oakdale Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RML

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 50 merits decisions make Judge RML a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 22.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

22.0%
Asylum grant rate
78.0%
Asylum denial rate
50
Asylum decisions

Judge RML in one line

Judge RML's asylum grant rate is 22.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 50 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

22.0%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
50
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-26.3 pp
vs. national average
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"RML" 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 RML's 78.0% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RML 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)

22% 1310th of 1696 higher than 386 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 %
2021 27 8 19 29.6%
2022 20 3 17 15.0%
2025 3 0 3 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RML's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RML's 22.0% 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 RML are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JCA 21.9% -0.1 pp 155 LIGHT Elizabeth
PLE 22.1% +0.1 pp 140 LIGHT Elizabeth
LFZ 22.1% +0.1 pp 122 LIGHT Otero
CNM 21.9% -0.1 pp 64 THIN Pearsall
MIO 21.9% -0.1 pp 32 THIN Port Isabel
GCV 21.8% -0.2 pp 1,416 FULL Miami

Same-bench poles at Oakdale

Same-bench spread at Oakdale: Judge RML runs 22.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ GET · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 50 merits · 24.0% grant
  • IJ DHS · Port Isabel Immigration Court · 50 merits · 18.0% grant
  • IJ SMR · Otero Immigration Court · 50 merits · 16.0% grant
  • IJ RCJ · El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court · 50 merits · 14.0% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code RML (22.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RML at Oakdale Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 50. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RML's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 50, 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 RML'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.