Immigration judge · Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained)
Immigration Judge SAA
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge SAA's 86.1% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 86.1% (above the 48.3% national average).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 86.1%
- Asylum grant rate
- 13.9%
- Asylum denial rate
- 101
- Asylum decisions
Judge SAA in one line
Judge SAA's asylum grant rate is 86.1% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 101 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 86.1%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 101
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- +37.8 pp
- vs. national average
"SAA" 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
101merits decisions FY2015–2025
Judge SAA 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)
86.1% 60th of 1696 higher than 1,636 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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 91 | 79 | 12 | 86.8% |
| 2025 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 80.0% |
IJ rate-band chamber
Anonymized codes nearest Judge SAA's grant rate
This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge SAA's 86.1% 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 SAA are shown here.
| IJ | Grant | Δ vs here | Merits | Stamp | Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SR1 | 86.0% | -0.1 pp | 292 | LIGHT | New York - Varick Street |
| JJS | 86.2% | +0.1 pp | 130 | LIGHT | San Francisco |
| HRD | 85.9% | -0.2 pp | 654 | FULL | San Francisco |
| OLC | 85.8% | -0.3 pp | 1,310 | FULL | New York - Federal Plaza |
| JEB | 86.4% | +0.3 pp | 191 | LIGHT | New York - Federal Plaza |
| JPK | 86.5% | +0.4 pp | 340 | LIGHT | Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard |
Same-bench poles at Chelmsford
Same-bench spread at Chelmsford: Judge SAA runs 86.1% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.
Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload
Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.
Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge SAA at Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained). Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Judge SAA's 101-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.
DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SAA at Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained); asylum grant rate 86.1%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 101 decisions FY2015–2025.
Judge SAA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 86.1%, 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 SAA'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.