What is Judge FAS's grant rate?

Immigration Judge FAS has an overall grant rate of 40.4% across 2,545 decisions at the San Francisco Immigration Court. The denial rate is 59.6%.

Where does Judge FAS serve?

Judge FAS serves at the San Francisco Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge FAS decided?

Judge FAS has decided 2,545 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,027 grants and 1,518 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge FAS's 40.4% grant rate reflects aggregate outcomes across many circumstances, individual results depend on case facts and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge FAS

Name: Immigration Judge FAS - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 2,545 merits decisions place Judge FAS among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,545 decisions FY2015–2025 (#9 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

40.4%
Asylum grant rate: 59.6%
Asylum denial rate: 2,545
Asylum decisions

Judge FAS in one line

Judge FAS's asylum grant rate is 40.4% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 2,545 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

40.4%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 2,545
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -7.9 pp
vs. national average

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"FAS" is the anonymized judge code DOJ's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) assigns in its public case-data release, not a verified public identity. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset, so this code should not be read as confirming, or attributing these statistics to, any specific named individual. See our methodology for detail.

This judge's merits outcome mix

2,545merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,027(40%)Denied1,518(60%)

Statistical data only. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge FAS vs all tracked IJs by asylum grant rate

Where this judge's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked immigration judge (a leniency measure, not a quality ranking)

40.4% 840th of 1696 higher than 856 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Year-by-Year Outcomes

Historical asylum merits decisions for this anonymized EOIR judge code. Annual rows can be thin, and are not a forecast of any future case.

FY	Decisions	Grants	Denials	Grant %
2018	1	0	1	0.0%
2019	5	0	5	0.0%
2022	303	137	166	45.2%
2023	634	343	291	54.1%
2024	749	262	487	35.0%
2025	853	285	568	33.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge FAS's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 40.4% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge FAS are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
MEK	40.4%	same	1,073	FULL	Boston
JNP	40.4%	same	520	FULL	Newark
CRJ	40.5%	+0.1 pp	1,399	FULL	Los Angeles - West
BSI	40.5%	+0.1 pp	1,069	FULL	Fort Snelling
DAJ	40.3%	-0.1 pp	876	FULL	Houston - S. Gessner Road
ZAN	40.3%	-0.1 pp	807	FULL	Portland

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge FAS runs 40.4% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

IJ BAN · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,530 merits · 61.6% grant
IJ JBL · New Orleans Immigration Court · 2,506 merits · 42.0% grant
IJ RZA · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,476 merits · 83.4% grant
IJ DWT · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 2,448 merits · 75.3% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code FAS: 2,545 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge FAS's 2,545-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ FAS at San Francisco Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 2,545. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 2,545 decisions FY2015–2025 (#9 of 1.7K).

Judge FAS's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 2,545, not hand-typed editorial values. justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Judge FAS's grant/denial/merits 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.