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Immigration Judge VSC

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 815 merits decisions place Judge VSC among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 815 decisions FY2015–2025 (#290 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

20.4%
Asylum grant rate
79.6%
Asylum denial rate
815
Asylum decisions

Judge VSC in one line

Judge VSC's asylum grant rate is 20.4% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 815 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

20.4%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
815
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-27.9 pp
vs. national average
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"VSC" 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 VSC's 79.6% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge VSC 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)

20.4% 1339th of 1696 higher than 357 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 88 29 59 33.0%
2016 86 11 75 12.8%
2017 129 27 102 20.9%
2018 274 53 221 19.3%
2019 199 39 160 19.6%
2020 39 7 32 17.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge VSC's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge VSC's 20.4% grant rate, a lower-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 VSC are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SJC 20.4% same 230 LIGHT New Orleans
NNA 20.4% same 49 THIN Tacoma
JHK 20.3% -0.1 pp 291 LIGHT Baltimore
MTG 20.3% -0.1 pp 261 LIGHT Houston - Smith Street
BSC 20.3% -0.1 pp 172 LIGHT Miami
JCL 20.3% -0.1 pp 59 THIN Agana (Hagatna)

Same-bench poles at Charlotte

Same-bench spread at Charlotte: Judge VSC runs 20.4% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

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 ATL · Adelanto Immigration Court · 817 merits · 22.8% grant
  • IJ JNP · Sterling Immigration Court · 819 merits · 38.1% grant
  • IJ BHL · Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court · 810 merits · 28.8% grant
  • IJ JA1 · San Antonio Immigration Court · 821 merits · 44.0% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code VSC: 815 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ VSC at Charlotte Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 815. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 815 decisions FY2015–2025 (#290 of 1.7K).

Judge VSC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 815, 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 VSC'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.