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Immigration Judge WDN

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 39 merits decisions make Judge WDN a thin-volume IJ code in the FOIA release. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 15.4% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 39 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

15.4%
Asylum grant rate
84.6%
Asylum denial rate
39
Asylum decisions

Judge WDN in one line

Judge WDN's asylum grant rate is 15.4% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 39 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

15.4%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
39
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-32.9 pp
vs. national average
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"WDN" 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 WDN's 84.6% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge WDN 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)

15.4% 1461st of 1696 higher than 235 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 %
2019 11 0 11 0.0%
2020 26 4 22 15.4%
2023 1 1 0 100.0%
2025 1 1 0 100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge WDN's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge WDN's 15.4% 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 WDN are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SC2 15.4% same 467 LIGHT Stewart
YMC 15.4% same 149 LIGHT Chelmsford
CRP 15.4% same 26 THIN Port Isabel
KQG 15.3% -0.1 pp 424 LIGHT Elizabeth
ECS 15.5% +0.1 pp 116 LIGHT Buffalo
SGE 15.3% -0.1 pp 72 THIN Stewart

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge WDN runs 15.4% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code WDN (15.4%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ WDN at San Francisco Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 39. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 39 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge WDN's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 39, 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 WDN'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.