SEA

Case Insights: SEA

The SEA immigration court, based in , , has processed 45,355 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 29,312 resulted in relief granted (64.6%), 788 were denied (1.7%), and 15,255 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (33.6%). The court has 15 immigration judges on record, whose individual caseloads and outcome patterns shape the court-wide averages shown above.

Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at SEA rose by 19.2 percentage points, moving from 63.1% to 82.3%. That window spans 11 fiscal years of reported data, covering shifts in bench composition, policy guidance, and nationality mix. The year-by-year table lower on this page shows the underlying annual case volume for every year in the series.

Outcomes vary substantially judge-to-judge. Judge BP1 has the largest recorded caseload at 10,844 decisions (61.6% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 22.2 percentage points — RBM at 75.7% versus HEW at 53.5%. These differences reflect case mix, nationality assignments, and docket type rather than any single factor, and they are why EOIR cautions readers against treating any judge's rate as predictive of an individual case.