What is Judge PSO's grant rate?

Immigration Judge PSO has an overall grant rate of 55.6% across 1,627 decisions at the San Francisco Immigration Court. The denial rate is 44.4%.

Where does Judge PSO serve?

Judge PSO 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 PSO decided?

Judge PSO has decided 1,627 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 904 grants and 723 denials.

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

No. Judge PSO's 55.6% 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 PSO

Name: Immigration Judge PSO - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,627 merits decisions place Judge PSO among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,627 decisions FY2015–2025 (#65 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

55.6%
Asylum grant rate: 44.4%
Asylum denial rate: 1,627
Asylum decisions

Judge PSO in one line

Judge PSO's asylum grant rate is 55.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,627 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

55.6%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,627
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +7.3 pp
vs. national average

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"PSO" 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

1,627merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted904(56%)Denied723(44%)

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 PSO 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)

55.6% 491st of 1696 higher than 1,205 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 %
2017	11	5	6	45.5%
2018	50	11	39	22.0%
2019	84	23	61	27.4%
2020	128	37	91	28.9%
2021	153	79	74	51.6%
2022	291	205	86	70.4%
2023	254	163	91	64.2%
2024	274	163	111	59.5%
2025	382	218	164	57.1%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge PSO's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge PSO's 55.6% grant rate, an upper-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

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

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
IRS	55.6%	same	1,217	FULL	Detroit
TRE	55.6%	same	349	LIGHT	Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street
SHH	55.6%	same	124	LIGHT	Houston - Smith Street
JMM	55.7%	+0.1 pp	907	FULL	New York - Broadway
LL1	55.7%	+0.1 pp	635	FULL	Annandale
DEW	55.5%	-0.1 pp	389	LIGHT	Hyattsville

Same-bench poles at San Francisco

Same-bench spread at San Francisco: Judge PSO runs 55.6% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

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 JHB · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,626 merits · 32.8% grant
IJ DK1 · Baltimore Immigration Court · 1,631 merits · 61.6% grant
IJ JSL · Kansas City Immigration Court · 1,620 merits · 37.7% grant
IJ AVP · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,603 merits · 58.7% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code PSO: 1,627 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge PSO's 1,627-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ PSO at San Francisco Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,627. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,627 decisions FY2015–2025 (#65 of 1.7K).

Judge PSO's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,627, 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 PSO'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.