The Board denied service connection for visual impairment but remanded the claims for acquired psychiatric disabilities and migraines due to insufficient evidence.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on a lack of credible evidence supporting the existence of current visual impairment, while the other issues required further medical examination.
- Claimed conditions
- Acquired psychiatric disabilities, to include depression (major depressive disorder), generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder, Migraines (headaches), Visual impairment, including blurry vision, blindness, and double vision
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098023
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 882 · Granted: 35% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
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- Granted
The Veteran's TBI, headaches (migraines), and GERD have been granted service connection as secondary to their respective service-connected conditions.
- Dismissed
The appeals for service connection and higher initial rating were dismissed due to concurrent election of review options.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with anxiety disorder, unspecified, and depression but denied service connection for a left hand fingers condition, right wrist condition, and remanded the claim for migraines (headaches).
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for service connection due to insufficient medical opinions regarding the etiology of the appellant's head injury, migraines, and peripheral vestibular disorder.
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