What is Judge VKB's grant rate?

Immigration Judge VKB has an overall grant rate of 78.5% across 909 decisions at the Sacramento Immigration Court. The denial rate is 21.5%.

Where does Judge VKB serve?

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

How many cases has Judge VKB decided?

Judge VKB has decided 909 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 714 grants and 195 denials.

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

No. Judge VKB's 78.5% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge VKB

Name: Immigration Judge VKB - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge VKB's 78.5% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 909 decisions FY2015–2025 (#233 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

78.5%
Asylum grant rate: 21.5%
Asylum denial rate: 909
Asylum decisions

Judge VKB in one line

Judge VKB's asylum grant rate is 78.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 909 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

78.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 909
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +30.2 pp
vs. national average

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"VKB" 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

909merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted714(79%)Denied195(21%)

Statistical data only. Judge VKB's 78.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge VKB 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)

78.5% 123rd of 1696 higher than 1,573 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 %
2023	104	90	14	86.5%
2024	357	293	64	82.1%
2025	448	331	117	73.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge VKB's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge VKB's 78.5% grant rate, an upper-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge VKB are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
RDW	78.5%	same	181	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
CSG	78.4%	-0.1 pp	2,016	HEAVY	San Francisco
KAN	78.4%	-0.1 pp	625	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
STT	78.7%	+0.2 pp	887	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
CEM	78.7%	+0.2 pp	884	FULL	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
JBY	78.3%	-0.2 pp	69	THIN	Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at Sacramento

Same-bench spread at Sacramento: Judge VKB runs 78.5% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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 QVB · Annandale Immigration Court · 910 merits · 38.0% grant
IJ MZR · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 910 merits · 37.6% grant
IJ JMM · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 907 merits · 55.7% grant
IJ EJT · San Antonio Immigration Court · 912 merits · 60.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code VKB: 909 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge VKB's 909-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ VKB at Sacramento Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 78.5%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 909 decisions FY2015–2025 (#233 of 1.7K).

Judge VKB's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 78.5%, 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 VKB'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.