Immigration court · Guaynabo, PR
San Juan Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: San Juan's 65.8% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 65.8% (above the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 65.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 34.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 401
- Pending cases
- 26 mo
- Time to decision
San Juan in one line
San Juan's asylum grant rate is 65.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 263 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 65.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 263
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- +17.5 pp
- vs. national average
- 24.1 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · mixed
What this court's record shows
San Juan Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 65.8% across 263 FY2015–2025 merits (17.5 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
The recorded judge-level range spans 57.1% to 81.2%, a 24.1-point spread across 3 reported judges. Different case mixes, decision volumes, and assignments can all affect a court-level aggregate, so the range is context rather than a prediction.
401 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 26 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
77/100
San Juan, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of asylum grant rate, time to decision, and backlog ratio against the full tracked-court corpus. It describes the historical docket, not the odds of any one case, and does not weigh legal representation, case type, or judge assignment.
- Asylum grant rate A+ 65.8%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision C- 26 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio B+ 1.0%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
San Juan Immigration Court vs all courts by asylum merits caseload
Where this court's FY2015–2025 asylum merits-decision count sits among every tracked immigration court (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)
263 73rd of 77 higher than 4 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more courts. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where San Juan sits: Fast & Favorable
Each dot is one of the 41 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.6%) and median average wait (31.0 months) across this set. San Juan's own grant rate is 65.8% and its average wait is 25.8 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
San Juan Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
263merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court San Juan: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 1 | 0.0% |
| FY2016 | 1 | 100.0% |
| FY2017 | 6 | 83.3% |
| FY2019 | 9 | 88.9% |
| FY2020 | 11 | 90.9% |
| FY2021 | 18 | 94.4% |
| FY2022 | 68 | 76.5% |
| FY2023 | 56 | 71.4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | 60.9% |
| FY2025 | 70 | 37.1% |
The judge lottery at San Juan Immigration Court
3 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 81.2% (64 decisions) down to 57.1% (56 decisions) - a 24.1-point spread on the same bench. Rates based on smaller decision counts carry more statistical noise.
Judge names below are the anonymized judge codes EOIR assigns in its public case-data release, not verified public identities. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset. See our methodology for detail.
How immigration court proceedings work · Browse every tracked immigration court
Data from the DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) via FOIA bulk case data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how San Juan's 263-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. San Juan Immigration Court's outcome and grant-rate 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.