Immigration court · San Antonio, TX
San Antonio Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 70.7 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on San Antonio's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 11,574 decisions FY2015–2025 (#22 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 54.6%
- Asylum grant rate
- 45.4%
- Asylum denial rate
- 81,165
- Pending cases
- 35 mo
- Time to decision
San Antonio in one line
San Antonio's asylum grant rate is 54.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 11,574 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 54.6%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 11,574
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- +6.3 pp
- vs. national average
- 70.7 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
San Antonio Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 54.6% across 11,574 FY2015–2025 merits (6.3 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 3.9% to 74.6% (70.7 pp) across 16 reported judges at San Antonio. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Heavy-corpus court (#22 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
52/100
San Antonio, 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- 54.6%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision F 35 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio D 16.1%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for San Antonio
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for San Antonio (54.6%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
San Antonio 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)
11,574 22nd of 77 higher than 55 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where San Antonio sits: Favorable but Slow
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. San Antonio's own grant rate is 54.6% and its average wait is 34.5 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
San Antonio Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
11,574merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court San Antonio: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 163 | 8.0% |
| FY2016 | 343 | 12.5% |
| FY2017 | 529 | 29.7% |
| FY2018 | 670 | 45.2% |
| FY2019 | 1,072 | 53.6% |
| FY2020 | 432 | 47.9% |
| FY2021 | 310 | 57.7% |
| FY2022 | 852 | 63.4% |
| FY2023 | 1,578 | 59.0% |
| FY2024 | 2,031 | 60.6% |
| FY2025 | 3,594 | 59.6% |
The judge lottery at San Antonio Immigration Court
16 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 74.6% (173 decisions) down to 3.9% (304 decisions) - a 70.7-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 EMZ | 173 | |
| 2 | Judge DJS | 732 | |
| 3 | Judge MB | 522 | |
| 4 | Judge CLG | 612 | |
| 5 | Judge YG1 | 1,222 | |
| 6 | Judge EJT | 912 | |
| 7 | Judge CMM | 1,256 | |
| 8 | Judge RSN | 1,485 | |
| 9 | Judge CNM | 240 | |
| 10 | Judge MBT | 759 | |
| 11 | Judge ADM | 548 | |
| 12 | Judge CAH | 878 | |
| 13 | Judge JA1 | 821 | |
| 14 | Judge TGC | 702 | |
| 15 | Judge VBM | 192 | |
| 16 | Judge GDB | 304 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for San Antonio: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Denver Immigration Court · Denver, CO · 54.8% grant · 11,218 merits
- Hyattsville Immigration Court · Hyattsville, MD · 54.4% grant · 11,100 merits
- Philadelphia Immigration Court · Philadelphia, PA · 55.2% grant · 11,412 merits
- Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 53.3% grant · 942 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Memphis Immigration Court · Memphis, TN · 11,643 merits · 40.8% grant
- Charlotte Immigration Court · Charlotte, NC · 12,358 merits · 35.3% grant
- Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 12,430 merits · 39.2% grant
- Sterling Immigration Court · Sterling, VA · 10,044 merits · 48.8% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court San Antonio: 11,574 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how San Antonio's 11,574-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 Antonio 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.