What is Judge VG's grant rate?

Immigration Judge VG has an overall grant rate of 48.5% across 1,415 decisions at the Orlando Immigration Court. The denial rate is 51.5%.

Where does Judge VG serve?

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

How many cases has Judge VG decided?

Judge VG has decided 1,415 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 686 grants and 729 denials.

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

No. Judge VG's 48.5% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge VG

Name: Immigration Judge VG - 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: 1,415 merits decisions place Judge VG among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,415 decisions FY2015–2025 (#94 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

48.5%
Asylum grant rate: 51.5%
Asylum denial rate: 1,415
Asylum decisions

Judge VG in one line

Judge VG's asylum grant rate is 48.5% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 1,415 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

48.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,415
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +0.2 pp
vs. national average

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"VG" 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

1,415merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted686(48%)Denied729(52%)

Statistical data only. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge VG 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)

48.5% 646th of 1696 higher than 1,050 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	62	40	22	64.5%
2016	87	16	71	18.4%
2017	122	48	74	39.3%
2018	224	95	129	42.4%
2019	288	113	175	39.2%
2020	149	49	100	32.9%
2021	32	16	16	50.0%
2022	42	21	21	50.0%
2023	78	45	33	57.7%
2024	78	54	24	69.2%
2025	253	189	64	74.7%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge VG'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 48.5% (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 VG are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
CDE	48.4%	-0.1 pp	1,849	FULL	Chicago
ABK	48.4%	-0.1 pp	758	FULL	Santa Ana
CJL	48.4%	-0.1 pp	659	FULL	Portland
LLG	48.7%	+0.2 pp	3,102	HEAVY	New York - Varick Street
MCA	48.7%	+0.2 pp	784	FULL	Miami
GYH	48.7%	+0.2 pp	733	FULL	Houston - S. Gessner Road

Same-bench poles at Orlando

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 25 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge VG is at 48.5%.

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 GCV · Miami Immigration Court · 1,416 merits · 21.8% grant
IJ RAC · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,412 merits · 85.3% grant
IJ SEG · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 1,408 merits · 28.1% grant
IJ JMG · Detroit Immigration Court · 1,424 merits · 43.8% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code VG: 1,415 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge VG's 1,415-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ VG at Orlando Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,415. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,415 decisions FY2015–2025 (#94 of 1.7K).

Judge VG's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,415, 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 VG'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.