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Immigration Judge RPO

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 28 merits decisions make Judge RPO a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 39.3% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

39.3%
Asylum grant rate
60.7%
Asylum denial rate
28
Asylum decisions

Judge RPO in one line

Judge RPO's asylum grant rate is 39.3% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 28 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

39.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
28
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-9.0 pp
vs. national average
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"RPO" 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 RPO's 60.7% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RPO 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)

39.3% 869th of 1696 higher than 827 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 27 10 17 37.0%
2016 1 1 0 100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RPO'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 39.3% (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 RPO are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JDV 39.3% same 532 FULL San Diego
PTW 39.2% -0.1 pp 2,194 HEAVY Baltimore
DCA 39.2% -0.1 pp 283 LIGHT Portland
GEP 39.2% -0.1 pp 194 LIGHT Chelmsford
LRS 39.4% +0.1 pp 137 LIGHT Sacramento
JMM 39.1% -0.2 pp 1,010 FULL New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Elizabeth

Same-bench spread at Elizabeth: Judge RPO runs 39.3% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge RPO at Elizabeth Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RPO at Elizabeth Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 28. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 28 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge RPO's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 28, 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 RPO'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.