Immigration judge

Ehlers, Patrick J.

Philadelphia Immigration Court

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These figures are not current

Captured September 18, 2026 — about 0 months ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

Lifetime grant rate

50.9%

320 decisions

Grant rate, last 12 months on record

Not reported

Fewer than 25 decisions on record. A percentage drawn from so few decisions would be misleading, so it is withheld rather than shown.

35.3%

Court lifetime average

Grant-rate trend

Each point is the grant rate across the 12 months ending in that month — a rolling window, not a single month on its own. A point appears only where those 12 months hold at least 25 decisions. A rolling window covers a much shorter span than the lifetime figure above, so the two can differ materially; both are correct measures of different periods.

0%25%50%75%100%Apr 2021Nov 2021Jun 2022May 2023Feb 2024Month each 12-month window ends50.0%42.3% — 12 months ending Apr 2021 (111 decisions)44.2% — 12 months ending May 2021 (129 decisions)44.9% — 12 months ending Jun 2021 (136 decisions)40.7% — 12 months ending Jul 2021 (162 decisions)43.2% — 12 months ending Aug 2021 (169 decisions)44.6% — 12 months ending Sep 2021 (175 decisions)46.4% — 12 months ending Oct 2021 (192 decisions)51.1% — 12 months ending Nov 2021 (182 decisions)54.5% — 12 months ending Dec 2021 (191 decisions)54.3% — 12 months ending Jan 2022 (175 decisions)55.2% — 12 months ending Feb 2022 (163 decisions)54.4% — 12 months ending Mar 2022 (158 decisions)56.5% — 12 months ending Apr 2022 (154 decisions)56.1% — 12 months ending May 2022 (155 decisions)56.9% — 12 months ending Jun 2022 (153 decisions)65.9% — 12 months ending Jul 2022 (135 decisions)60.3% — 12 months ending Aug 2022 (141 decisions)58.2% — 12 months ending Sep 2022 (141 decisions)57.6% — 12 months ending Oct 2022 (125 decisions)55.8% — 12 months ending Dec 2022 (120 decisions)52.3% — 12 months ending May 2023 (109 decisions)50.0% — 12 months ending Feb 2024 (104 decisions)

The line is broken where this record has no decisions for several months. It is left open rather than joined, because joining it would imply decisions that were never recorded.

5 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.

Same judge name at other courts

This record covers one court only. The same judge name also appears at the courts below, with separate statistics.

Monthly decisions

Showing the most recent 24 months on record. Months with no decisions are not listed.

Decisions and grant rate by month for this judge
MonthDecisionsGrant rate
February 20241Not reported
May 20231Not reported
December 20221Not reported
October 20221Not reported
September 20226Not reported
August 202213Not reported
July 20228Not reported
June 20225Not reported
May 202219Not reported
April 202211Not reported
March 202224Not reported
February 202214Not reported
January 20226Not reported
December 202112Not reported
November 20216Not reported
October 202117Not reported
September 20216Not reported
August 20217Not reported
July 20212619.2%
June 20217Not reported
May 202118Not reported
April 202115Not reported
March 20212948.3%
February 20212634.6%

Source and method

These figures come from case data released by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act, published by the Deportation Data Project. Imigrar did not produce or estimate them.

Captured on September 18, 2026, about 0 months ago, so it is out of date. The record covers decisions from October 1997 through July 2026; nothing filed or decided after July 2026 appears here.

Grant rates are historical aggregates. They describe decisions already made. They do not predict the outcome of any individual case, and no figure on this page should be read as a forecast of what will happen in yours.

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