Immigration judge · Otay Mesa Immigration Court
Immigration Judge VAB
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 VAB's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 38.8% (below the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 38.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 61.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 299
- Asylum decisions
Judge VAB in one line
Judge VAB's asylum grant rate is 38.8% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 299 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 38.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
- 299
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- -9.5 pp
- vs. national average
"VAB" 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
299merits decisions FY2015–2025
Judge VAB 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)
38.8% 885th of 1696 higher than 811 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 | 97 | 39 | 58 | 40.2% |
| 2020 | 81 | 41 | 40 | 50.6% |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| 2022 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 36.4% |
| 2023 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 30.0% |
| 2024 | 53 | 12 | 41 | 22.6% |
| 2025 | 34 | 11 | 23 | 32.4% |
IJ rate-band chamber
Anonymized codes nearest Judge VAB'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 38.8% (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 VAB are shown here.
Same-bench poles at Otay Mesa
Same-bench spread at Otay Mesa: Judge VAB runs 38.8% - 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.
Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge VAB at Otay Mesa Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Judge VAB's 299-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.
DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ VAB at Otay Mesa Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 299 decisions FY2015–2025.
Judge VAB'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 VAB'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.