Immigration judge · Cleveland Immigration Court

Immigration Judge TWJ

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge TWJ's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 32.0% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

32.0%
Asylum grant rate
68.0%
Asylum denial rate
175
Asylum decisions

Judge TWJ in one line

Judge TWJ's asylum grant rate is 32.0% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 175 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

32.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
175
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-16.3 pp
vs. national average
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"TWJ" 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 TWJ's 68.0% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge TWJ 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)

32% 1060th of 1696 higher than 636 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 66 22 44 33.3%
2016 68 19 49 27.9%
2017 40 15 25 37.5%
2019 1 0 1 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge TWJ'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 32.0% (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 TWJ are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
LSY 32.0% same 97 THIN Chelmsford
RTD 32.0% same 25 THIN LaSalle
KAW 32.1% +0.1 pp 1,014 FULL Houston - Greenspoint Park
CDM 31.9% -0.1 pp 514 FULL Santa Ana
CBA 32.1% +0.1 pp 448 LIGHT Conroe
ROS 32.1% +0.1 pp 421 LIGHT Orlando

Same-bench poles at Cleveland

Same-bench spread at Cleveland: Judge TWJ runs 32.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ DER · Dallas Immigration Court · 175 merits · 33.1% grant
  • IJ GWR · Miami Immigration Court · 175 merits · 42.9% grant
  • IJ CB1 · Charlotte Immigration Court · 175 merits · 62.3% grant
  • IJ SC3 · Harlingen Immigration Court · 175 merits · 62.9% grant

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

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ TWJ at Cleveland Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 175 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge TWJ's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 TWJ'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.