What is Judge SBC's grant rate?

Immigration Judge SBC has an overall grant rate of 48.3% across 631 decisions at the Chicago Immigration Court. The denial rate is 51.7%.

Where does Judge SBC serve?

Judge SBC serves at the Chicago Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge SBC decided?

Judge SBC has decided 631 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 305 grants and 326 denials.

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

No. Judge SBC's 48.3% 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 SBC

Name: Immigration Judge SBC - 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: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge SBC's EOIR row. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 631 decisions FY2015–2025 (#429 of 1.7K).

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Data updated 2026-09-05

48.3%
Asylum grant rate: 51.7%
Asylum denial rate: 631
Asylum decisions

Judge SBC in one line

Judge SBC's asylum grant rate is 48.3% (mid-band grant rate, roughly in line with the 48.3% national average) across 631 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

48.3%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 631
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +0.0 pp
vs. national average

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"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.

This judge's merits outcome mix

631merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted305(48%)Denied326(52%)

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 SBC 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)

48.3% 652nd of 1696 higher than 1,044 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 %
2015	1	0	1	0.0%
2016	13	7	6	53.8%
2017	66	22	44	33.3%
2018	91	52	39	57.1%
2019	213	156	57	73.2%
2020	66	28	38	42.4%
2021	55	12	43	21.8%
2022	32	8	24	25.0%
2023	35	9	26	25.7%
2024	41	7	34	17.1%
2025	18	4	14	22.2%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SBC'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 48.3% (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 SBC are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
LSF	48.3%	same	549	FULL	Phoenix
WMD	48.3%	same	29	THIN	Baltimore
DHS	48.2%	-0.1 pp	1,084	FULL	Dallas
CDE	48.4%	+0.1 pp	1,849	FULL	Chicago
ABK	48.4%	+0.1 pp	758	FULL	Santa Ana
CJL	48.4%	+0.1 pp	659	FULL	Portland

Same-bench poles at Chicago

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 37 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge SBC is at 48.3%.

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 NMR · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 632 merits · 43.2% grant
IJ JIG · Eloy Immigration Court · 629 merits · 44.0% grant
IJ TNN · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 628 merits · 6.5% grant
IJ HH · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 627 merits · 45.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code SBC: 631 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SBC's 631-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SBC at Chicago Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 631 decisions FY2015–2025 (#429 of 1.7K).

Judge SBC's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 SBC'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.