What is Judge TAR's grant rate?

Immigration Judge TAR has an overall grant rate of 39.9% across 989 decisions at the Cleveland Immigration Court. The denial rate is 60.1%.

Where does Judge TAR serve?

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

How many cases has Judge TAR decided?

Judge TAR has decided 989 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 395 grants and 594 denials.

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

No. Judge TAR's 60.1% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge TAR

Name: Immigration Judge TAR - 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: 989 merits decisions place Judge TAR among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 989 decisions FY2015–2025 (#199 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

39.9%
Asylum grant rate: 60.1%
Asylum denial rate: 989
Asylum decisions

Judge TAR in one line

Judge TAR's asylum grant rate is 39.9% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 989 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

39.9%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 989
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -8.4 pp
vs. national average

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"TAR" 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

989merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted395(40%)Denied594(60%)

Statistical data only. Judge TAR's 60.1% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge TAR 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)

39.9% 858th of 1696 higher than 838 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	1	1	0	100.0%
2018	1	0	1	0.0%
2019	89	25	64	28.1%
2020	164	56	108	34.1%
2021	86	26	60	30.2%
2022	101	40	61	39.6%
2023	180	56	124	31.1%
2024	141	92	49	65.2%
2025	226	99	127	43.8%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge TAR'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 39.9% (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 TAR are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
SSX	39.9%	same	306	LIGHT	New York - Broadway
KYA	39.9%	same	198	LIGHT	New York - Varick Street
JEB	39.8%	-0.1 pp	2,108	HEAVY	Miami
DDS	40.0%	+0.1 pp	452	LIGHT	Los Angeles - West
KFL	39.8%	-0.1 pp	324	LIGHT	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
GEP	40.0%	+0.1 pp	100	LIGHT	Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at Cleveland

Same-bench spread at Cleveland: Judge TAR runs 39.9% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 TRW · Denver Immigration Court · 984 merits · 52.5% grant
IJ ESS · Chicago Immigration Court · 994 merits · 67.6% grant
IJ JBV · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 995 merits · 57.6% grant
IJ JCO · Tacoma Immigration Court · 998 merits · 26.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code TAR: 989 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge TAR's 989-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ TAR at Cleveland Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 989. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 989 decisions FY2015–2025 (#199 of 1.7K).

Judge TAR's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 989, 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 TAR'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.