What is Judge STP's grant rate?

Immigration Judge STP has an overall grant rate of 85.4% across 512 decisions at the Chicago Immigration Court. The denial rate is 14.6%.

Where does Judge STP serve?

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

How many cases has Judge STP decided?

Judge STP has decided 512 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 437 grants and 75 denials.

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

No. Judge STP's 85.4% 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 STP

Name: Immigration Judge STP - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge STP's 85.4% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 512 decisions FY2015–2025 (#535 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

85.4%
Asylum grant rate: 14.6%
Asylum denial rate: 512
Asylum decisions

Judge STP in one line

Judge STP's asylum grant rate is 85.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 512 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

85.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 512
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +37.1 pp
vs. national average

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"STP" 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

512merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted437(85%)Denied75(15%)

Statistical data only. Judge STP's 85.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge STP 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)

85.4% 67th of 1696 higher than 1,629 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 %
2019	17	14	3	82.4%
2021	2	0	2	0.0%
2022	87	75	12	86.2%
2023	152	123	29	80.9%
2024	157	150	7	95.5%
2025	97	75	22	77.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge STP's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge STP's 85.4% 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 STP are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
RBJ	85.5%	+0.1 pp	379	LIGHT	San Francisco
RAC	85.3%	-0.1 pp	1,412	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
PAR	85.6%	+0.2 pp	465	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
AED	85.6%	+0.2 pp	417	LIGHT	Sacramento
CJL	85.2%	-0.2 pp	298	LIGHT	San Francisco
OLC	85.8%	+0.4 pp	1,310	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Chicago

Same-bench spread at Chicago: Judge STP runs 85.4% - 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 OLC · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 512 merits · 89.6% grant
IJ AJN · Orlando Immigration Court · 513 merits · 76.6% grant
IJ EMB · Imperial Immigration Court · 513 merits · 55.4% grant
IJ TNN · Dallas Immigration Court · 510 merits · 79.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code STP: 512 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge STP's 512-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ STP at Chicago Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 85.4%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 512 decisions FY2015–2025 (#535 of 1.7K).

Judge STP's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 85.4%, 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 STP'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.