Immigration Judge VJ3

Case Insights: Judge VJ3

Immigration Judge VJ3 has issued 902 recorded decisions at the HOU in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 41 resulted in relief granted (4.5%), 1 were denied (0.1%), and 860 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (95.3%). That volume places Judge VJ3 among a moderate docket at the HOU.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 4.4 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as heavily denial-leaning relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.

The HOU itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge VJ3's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for HOU lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.