Immigration judge · Batavia Immigration Court
Immigration Judge SJC
23.2% asylum grant rate across 198 merits decisions - below the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
- 23.2%
- Asylum grant rate
- 76.8%
- Asylum denial rate
- 198
- Asylum decisions
"SJC" 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 SJC granted asylum in 23.2% of the 198 cases decided on the merits at the Batavia Immigration Court - below the 48.2% national rate.
- 23.2%
- Asylum grant rate
- 76.8%
- Asylum denial rate
- 198
- Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Case Insights: Judge SJC
Immigration Judge SJC decided 198 asylum cases on the merits at the Batavia Immigration Court between FY2015 and FY2025. Of those, 46 were granted (23.2%) and 152 were denied (76.8%). That volume places Judge SJC among a lighter caseload at the Batavia Immigration Court.
The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is -53.6 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as denial-leaning 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 Batavia Immigration Court itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge SJC's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for Batavia 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 SJC's 23.2%, regardless of court.
Miami Immigration Court
Fort Snelling Immigration Court
LaSalle Immigration Court (Jena)
Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court
San Diego Immigration Court
Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court
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