What is Judge SEM's grant rate?

Immigration Judge SEM has an overall grant rate of 42.5% across 1,000 decisions at the Miami Immigration Court. The denial rate is 57.5%.

Where does Judge SEM serve?

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

How many cases has Judge SEM decided?

Judge SEM has decided 1,000 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 425 grants and 575 denials.

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

No. Judge SEM's 42.5% 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 SEM

Name: Immigration Judge SEM - 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: 1,000 merits decisions place Judge SEM among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,000 decisions FY2015–2025 (#194 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

42.5%
Asylum grant rate: 57.5%
Asylum denial rate: 1,000
Asylum decisions

Judge SEM in one line

Judge SEM's asylum grant rate is 42.5% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,000 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

42.5%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,000
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -5.8 pp
vs. national average

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"SEM" 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

1,000merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted425(43%)Denied575(57%)

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 SEM 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)

42.5% 782nd of 1696 higher than 914 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	65	30	35	46.2%
2016	33	26	7	78.8%
2017	59	24	35	40.7%
2018	107	43	64	40.2%
2019	189	50	139	26.5%
2020	162	36	126	22.2%
2021	10	8	2	80.0%
2022	75	52	23	69.3%
2023	107	48	59	44.9%
2024	59	37	22	62.7%
2025	134	71	63	53.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SEM'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 42.5% (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 SEM are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
WLA	42.5%	same	40	THIN	Harlingen
BDG	42.4%	-0.1 pp	1,246	FULL	Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
BTP	42.6%	+0.1 pp	693	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
JJC	42.6%	+0.1 pp	519	FULL	Houston - S. Gessner Road
HRL	42.4%	-0.1 pp	429	LIGHT	Santa Ana
DGT	42.6%	+0.1 pp	61	THIN	Harlingen

Same-bench poles at Miami

Same-bench spread at Miami: Judge SEM runs 42.5% - 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 CMS · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court · 1,001 merits · 29.7% grant
IJ JCO · Tacoma Immigration Court · 998 merits · 26.2% grant
IJ MLK · Chicago Immigration Court · 1,004 merits · 60.8% grant
IJ PV · Hartford Immigration Court · 1,005 merits · 46.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code SEM: 1,000 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SEM's 1,000-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SEM at Miami Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,000. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,000 decisions FY2015–2025 (#194 of 1.7K).

Judge SEM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,000, 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 SEM'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.