SNA

Case Insights: SNA

The SNA immigration court, based in , , has processed 94,890 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 54,520 resulted in relief granted (57.5%), 218 were denied (0.2%), and 40,152 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (42.3%). The court has 18 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 SNA rose by 31.0 percentage points, moving from 48.9% to 79.9%. 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 YG1 has the largest recorded caseload at 9,252 decisions (64.4% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 77.0 percentage points — RSN at 81.2% versus GPM at 4.2%. 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.