SFR

Case Insights: SFR

The SFR immigration court, based in , , has processed 144,117 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 90,733 resulted in relief granted (63.0%), 982 were denied (0.7%), and 52,402 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (36.4%). The court has 78 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 SFR rose by 18.5 percentage points, moving from 56.7% to 75.2%. 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 PSS has the largest recorded caseload at 6,939 decisions (60.6% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 82.1 percentage points — CRS at 100.0% versus VJ2 at 17.9%. 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.