What is Judge WAH's grant rate?

Immigration Judge WAH has an overall grant rate of 61.5% across 96 decisions at the Phoenix Immigration Court. The denial rate is 38.5%.

Where does Judge WAH serve?

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

How many cases has Judge WAH decided?

Judge WAH has decided 96 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 59 grants and 37 denials.

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

No. Judge WAH's 61.5% 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 WAH

Name: Immigration Judge WAH - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge WAH's 61.5% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 61.5% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

61.5%
Asylum grant rate: 38.5%
Asylum denial rate: 96
Asylum decisions

Judge WAH in one line

Judge WAH's asylum grant rate is 61.5% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 96 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

61.5%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 96
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: +13.2 pp
vs. national average

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"WAH" 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

96merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted59(61%)Denied37(39%)

Statistical data only. Judge WAH's 61.5% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge WAH 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)

61.5% 347th of 1696 higher than 1,349 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	12	9	3	75.0%
2016	13	8	5	61.5%
2017	27	18	9	66.7%
2018	44	24	20	54.5%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge WAH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge WAH's 61.5% 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 WAH are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
ERT	61.5%	same	1,081	FULL	Denver
SJS	61.5%	same	792	FULL	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
BAN	61.6%	+0.1 pp	2,530	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
DK1	61.6%	+0.1 pp	1,631	FULL	Baltimore
GAM	61.4%	-0.1 pp	399	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza
CPN	61.4%	-0.1 pp	166	LIGHT	Miami

Same-bench poles at Phoenix

Same-bench spread at Phoenix: Judge WAH runs 61.5% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

IJ SMN · Chicago Immigration Court · 96 merits · 58.3% grant
IJ SHH · El Paso Immigration Court · 97 merits · 56.7% grant
IJ KHT · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 97 merits · 69.1% grant
IJ AC2 · Newark Immigration Court · 97 merits · 71.1% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge WAH at Phoenix Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge WAH's 96-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ WAH at Phoenix Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 61.5%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 96 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge WAH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 61.5%, 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 WAH'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.