What is Judge RZA's grant rate?

Immigration Judge RZA has an overall grant rate of 83.4% across 2,476 decisions at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. The denial rate is 16.6%.

Where does Judge RZA serve?

Judge RZA serves at the New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge RZA decided?

Judge RZA has decided 2,476 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 2,066 grants and 410 denials.

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

No. Judge RZA's 83.4% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration judge · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court

Immigration Judge RZA

Name: Immigration Judge RZA - 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: 2,476 merits decisions place Judge RZA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,476 decisions FY2015–2025 (#12 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

83.4%
Asylum grant rate: 16.6%
Asylum denial rate: 2,476
Asylum decisions

Judge RZA in one line

Judge RZA's asylum grant rate is 83.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 2,476 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

83.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 2,476
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +35.1 pp
vs. national average

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"RZA" 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

2,476merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted2,066(83%)Denied410(17%)

Statistical data only. Judge RZA's 83.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge RZA 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)

83.4% 80th of 1696 higher than 1,616 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	192	162	30	84.4%
2016	198	173	25	87.4%
2017	91	74	17	81.3%
2018	225	145	80	64.4%
2019	267	205	62	76.8%
2020	166	124	42	74.7%
2021	43	34	9	79.1%
2022	260	231	29	88.8%
2023	336	310	26	92.3%
2024	260	239	21	91.9%
2025	438	369	69	84.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge RZA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge RZA's 83.4% grant rate, an upper-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 RZA are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
SAA	83.4%	same	175	LIGHT	Chelmsford
LOB	83.3%	-0.1 pp	1,306	FULL	Annandale
VAL	83.3%	-0.1 pp	162	LIGHT	Santa Ana
CRC	83.6%	+0.2 pp	256	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
LSG	83.7%	+0.3 pp	732	FULL	Sacramento
ETK	82.9%	-0.5 pp	35	THIN	Newark

Same-bench poles at New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench spread at New York - Federal Plaza: Judge RZA runs 83.4% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 JBL · New Orleans Immigration Court · 2,506 merits · 42.0% grant
IJ FAS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 2,545 merits · 40.4% grant
IJ DCA · Salt Lake City Immigration Court · 2,350 merits · 64.2% grant
IJ GMP · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 2,338 merits · 32.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code RZA: 2,476 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge RZA's 2,476-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ RZA at New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,476. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,476 decisions FY2015–2025 (#12 of 1.7K).

Judge RZA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,476, 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 RZA'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.