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Immigration Judge VSM

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 94.6% is Judge VSM's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 5.4% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 37 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

5.4%
Asylum grant rate
94.6%
Asylum denial rate
37
Asylum decisions

Judge VSM in one line

Judge VSM's asylum grant rate is 5.4% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 37 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

5.4%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
37
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-42.9 pp
vs. national average
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"VSM" 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 VSM's 94.6% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge VSM 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)

5.4% 1631st of 1696 higher than 65 of 1,696 judges

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge VSM's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge VSM's 5.4% 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 VSM are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
RD1 5.4% same 406 LIGHT Stewart
CAG 5.4% same 37 THIN Port Isabel
RC1 5.3% -0.1 pp 76 THIN Annandale
AJC 5.6% +0.2 pp 250 LIGHT Conroe
WAC 5.2% -0.2 pp 213 LIGHT Atlanta - Ted Turner Drive
JGC 5.7% +0.3 pp 300 LIGHT Port Isabel

Same-bench poles at Elizabeth

Same-bench spread at Elizabeth: Judge VSM runs 5.4% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ DH
68.9%
148 merits
Bench low
IJ JHK
2.2%
46 merits

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code VSM (5.4%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge VSM's 37-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ VSM at Elizabeth Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 94.6%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 37 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge VSM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 94.6%, 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 VSM'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.