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Immigration Judge SGA

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,746 merits decisions place Judge SGA among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,746 decisions FY2015–2025 (#56 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

35.2%
Asylum grant rate
64.8%
Asylum denial rate
1,746
Asylum decisions

Judge SGA in one line

Judge SGA's asylum grant rate is 35.2% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 1,746 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

35.2%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
1,746
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-13.1 pp
vs. national average
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"SGA" 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.

Statistical data only. Judge SGA's 64.8% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge SGA 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)

35.2% 979th of 1696 higher than 717 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 18 7 11 38.9%
2016 15 6 9 40.0%
2017 79 9 70 11.4%
2018 250 48 202 19.2%
2019 326 48 278 14.7%
2020 304 85 219 28.0%
2021 58 11 47 19.0%
2022 124 63 61 50.8%
2023 158 101 57 63.9%
2024 118 93 25 78.8%
2025 296 144 152 48.6%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SGA'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 35.2% (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 SGA are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
BND 35.2% same 455 LIGHT Detroit
JRA 35.3% +0.1 pp 1,152 FULL Miami
LWP 35.3% +0.1 pp 184 LIGHT Santa Ana
JTH 35.3% +0.1 pp 51 THIN Los Angeles - West
ASH 35.1% -0.1 pp 188 LIGHT Elizabeth
JTL 35.1% -0.1 pp 37 THIN Seattle

Same-bench poles at Miami

Same-bench spread at Miami: Judge SGA runs 35.2% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Bench high
IJ MAU
69.3%
456 merits
Bench low
IJ CAM
17.5%
154 merits

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 JME · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,738 merits · 57.3% grant
  • IJ SCN · Newark Immigration Court · 1,755 merits · 36.9% grant
  • IJ RLH · Memphis Immigration Court · 1,757 merits · 36.9% grant
  • IJ BLF · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,734 merits · 79.8% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code SGA: 1,746 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SGA's 1,746-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SGA at Miami Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,746. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,746 decisions FY2015–2025 (#56 of 1.7K).

Judge SGA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,746, 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 SGA'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.