Immigration judge · Chicago Immigration Court
Immigration Judge SBC
48.9% asylum grant rate across 620 merits decisions - roughly in line with the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
- 48.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 51.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 620
- Asylum decisions
"SBC" 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.
The verdict
Judge SBC granted asylum in 48.9% of the 620 cases decided on the merits at the Chicago Immigration Court - roughly in line with the 48.2% national rate.
- 48.9%
- Asylum grant rate
- 51.1%
- Asylum denial rate
- 620
- Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Case Insights: Judge SBC
Immigration Judge SBC decided 620 asylum cases on the merits at the Chicago Immigration Court between FY2015 and FY2025. Of those, 303 were granted (48.9%) and 317 were denied (51.1%). That volume places Judge SBC among a moderate docket at the Chicago Immigration Court.
The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is -2.2 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as roughly balanced relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.
The Chicago Immigration Court itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge SBC's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for Chicago Immigration Court lists all sitting judges and their asylum grant rates, making side-by-side comparison of decision volumes and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.
Judges With a Similar Grant Rate
These are the immigration judges nationwide whose asylum grant rate is closest to Judge SBC's 48.9%, regardless of court.
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