What is Judge WRU's grant rate?

Immigration Judge WRU has an overall grant rate of 47.3% across 1,499 decisions at the Buffalo Immigration Court. The denial rate is 52.7%.

Where does Judge WRU serve?

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

How many cases has Judge WRU decided?

Judge WRU has decided 1,499 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 709 grants and 790 denials.

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

No. Judge WRU's 47.3% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge WRU

Name: Immigration Judge WRU - 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: 1,499 merits decisions place Judge WRU among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,499 decisions FY2015–2025 (#81 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

47.3%
Asylum grant rate: 52.7%
Asylum denial rate: 1,499
Asylum decisions

Judge WRU in one line

Judge WRU's asylum grant rate is 47.3% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 1,499 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

47.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,499
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -1.0 pp
vs. national average

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"WRU" 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

1,499merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted709(47%)Denied790(53%)

Statistical data only. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge WRU 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)

47.3% 669th of 1696 higher than 1,027 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 %
2017	51	21	30	41.2%
2018	118	33	85	28.0%
2019	164	64	100	39.0%
2020	178	58	120	32.6%
2021	113	38	75	33.6%
2022	175	96	79	54.9%
2023	178	97	81	54.5%
2024	220	128	92	58.2%
2025	302	174	128	57.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge WRU's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 47.3% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

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

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
PDF	47.2%	-0.1 pp	667	FULL	Seattle
LPO	47.2%	-0.1 pp	638	FULL	Newark
CB1	47.2%	-0.1 pp	142	LIGHT	Santa Ana
MEH	47.2%	-0.1 pp	108	LIGHT	New York - Varick Street
RNF	47.1%	-0.2 pp	1,208	FULL	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
STP	47.1%	-0.2 pp	565	FULL	Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Buffalo

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 11 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge WRU is at 47.3%.

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 PKM · Chicago Immigration Court · 1,503 merits · 55.1% grant
IJ RDD · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 1,486 merits · 40.7% grant
IJ RSN · San Antonio Immigration Court · 1,485 merits · 56.6% grant
IJ RWK · Dallas Immigration Court · 1,484 merits · 27.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code WRU: 1,499 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge WRU's 1,499-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ WRU at Buffalo Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,499. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,499 decisions FY2015–2025 (#81 of 1.7K).

Judge WRU's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,499, 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 WRU'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.