Immigration judge · Otero Immigration Court
Immigration Judge SMR
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 50 merits decisions make Judge SMR a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 16.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 16.0%
- Asylum grant rate
- 84.0%
- Asylum denial rate
- 50
- Asylum decisions
Judge SMR in one line
Judge SMR's asylum grant rate is 16.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 50 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 16.0%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 50
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -32.3 pp
- vs. national average
"SMR" 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
50merits decisions FY2015–2025
Judge SMR 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)
16% 1448th of 1696 higher than 248 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 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 0.0% |
| 2016 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 9.1% |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| 2022 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 62.5% |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25.0% |
IJ rate-band chamber
Anonymized codes nearest Judge SMR's grant rate
This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge SMR's 16.0% 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 SMR are shown here.
Same-bench poles at Otero
Same-bench spread at Otero: Judge SMR runs 16.0% - 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.
Lower-third grant-rate IJ code SMR (16.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Judge SMR's 50-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.
DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SMR at Otero Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 50. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 50 decisions FY2015–2025.
Judge SMR'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 SMR'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.