Immigration court · Sacramento, CA
Sacramento Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Sacramento's 76.2% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked court corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 76.2% (above the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 76.2%
- Asylum grant rate
- 23.8%
- Asylum denial rate
- 29,625
- Pending cases
- 25 mo
- Time to decision
Sacramento in one line
Sacramento's asylum grant rate is 76.2% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 6,907 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).
- 76.2%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 6,907
- Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
- +27.9 pp
- vs. national average
- 75.7 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Sacramento Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 76.2% across 6,907 FY2015–2025 merits (27.9 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 17.6% to 93.3% (75.7 pp) across 15 reported judges at Sacramento. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
29,625 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 25 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
58/100
Sacramento, 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+ 76.2%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision C- 25 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 40.3%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Sacramento
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Sacramento (76.2%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Sacramento 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)
6,907 35th of 77 higher than 42 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 Sacramento sits: Fast & Favorable
Each dot is one of the 40 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.2 months) across this set. Sacramento's own grant rate is 76.2% and its average wait is 25.3 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Sacramento Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
6,907merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court Sacramento: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 14 | 42.9% |
| FY2016 | 10 | 40.0% |
| FY2017 | 20 | 10.0% |
| FY2018 | 46 | 15.2% |
| FY2019 | 50 | 36.0% |
| FY2020 | 258 | 53.5% |
| FY2021 | 464 | 48.5% |
| FY2022 | 464 | 80.4% |
| FY2023 | 1,101 | 75.0% |
| FY2024 | 2,136 | 82.1% |
| FY2025 | 2,344 | 81.6% |
The judge lottery at Sacramento Immigration Court
15 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 93.3% (1,053 decisions) down to 17.6% (108 decisions) - a 75.7-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.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge PRM | 1,053 | |
| 2 | Judge AED | 417 | |
| 3 | Judge LSG | 732 | |
| 4 | Judge DEH | 640 | |
| 5 | Judge WDN | 798 | |
| 6 | Judge SPN | 1,080 | |
| 7 | Judge VKB | 909 | |
| 8 | Judge JH1 | 210 | |
| 9 | Judge CGW | 120 | |
| 10 | Judge SNM | 34 | |
| 11 | Judge GMT | 114 | |
| 12 | Judge CPH | 86 | |
| 13 | Judge LRS | 137 | |
| 14 | Judge RRH | 363 | |
| 15 | Judge DJD | 108 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Cross-state peers matched on grant rate and merits caseload, not the same-state browse list.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · New York, NY · 74.7% grant · 79,106 merits
- Honolulu Immigration Court · Honolulu, HI · 64.1% grant · 2,117 merits
- Chicago Immigration Court · Chicago, IL · 61.3% grant · 21,578 merits
- Salt Lake City Immigration Court · West Valley City, UT · 59.3% grant · 8,831 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Phoenix Immigration Court · Phoenix, AZ · 7,051 merits · 38.2% grant
- Las Vegas Immigration Court · Las Vegas, NV · 6,581 merits · 47.6% grant
- LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena) · Jena, LA · 6,238 merits · 19.2% grant
- Annandale Immigration Court (Annex) · Annandale, VA · 6,174 merits · 36.9% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · 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 Sacramento's 6,907-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. Sacramento 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.