What is Judge SFK's grant rate?

Immigration Judge SFK has an overall grant rate of 37.8% across 1,035 decisions at the Orlando Immigration Court. The denial rate is 62.2%.

Where does Judge SFK serve?

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

How many cases has Judge SFK decided?

Judge SFK has decided 1,035 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 391 grants and 644 denials.

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

No. Judge SFK's 62.2% denial-leaning history still mixes case types, country conditions, and counsel rates, it is not a forecast for a future hearing. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge SFK

Name: Immigration Judge SFK - 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: 1,035 merits decisions place Judge SFK among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,035 decisions FY2015–2025 (#179 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

37.8%
Asylum grant rate: 62.2%
Asylum denial rate: 1,035
Asylum decisions

Judge SFK in one line

Judge SFK's asylum grant rate is 37.8% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,035 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

37.8%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate: 1,035
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: -10.5 pp
vs. national average

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"SFK" 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

1,035merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted391(38%)Denied644(62%)

Statistical data only. Judge SFK's 62.2% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge SFK 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)

37.8% 913th of 1696 higher than 783 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	60	36	24	60.0%
2016	105	43	62	41.0%
2017	120	27	93	22.5%
2018	138	27	111	19.6%
2019	218	82	136	37.6%
2020	120	32	88	26.7%
2021	24	9	15	37.5%
2022	48	19	29	39.6%
2023	104	56	48	53.8%
2024	69	43	26	62.3%
2025	29	17	12	58.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SFK'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 37.8% (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 SFK are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
RBM	37.8%	same	2,699	HEAVY	Seattle
TLF	37.8%	same	828	FULL	Tacoma
MNN	37.8%	same	489	LIGHT	Miami
ABE	37.8%	same	82	THIN	Oakdale
JSL	37.7%	-0.1 pp	1,620	FULL	Kansas City
IEB	37.7%	-0.1 pp	589	FULL	Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at Orlando

Same-bench spread at Orlando: Judge SFK runs 37.8% - 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 SMS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,035 merits · 70.1% grant
IJ JDE · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 1,033 merits · 38.8% grant
IJ CCJ · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,038 merits · 53.7% grant
IJ DM · Hartford Immigration Court · 1,044 merits · 50.2% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code SFK: 1,035 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SFK's 1,035-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SFK at Orlando Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,035. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,035 decisions FY2015–2025 (#179 of 1.7K).

Judge SFK's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,035, 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 SFK'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.