Immigration Judge SJS

Case Insights: Judge SJS

Immigration Judge SJS has issued 4,650 recorded decisions at the VNS in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 2,567 resulted in relief granted (55.2%), 13 were denied (0.3%), and 2,070 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (44.5%). That volume places Judge SJS among a substantial docket at the VNS.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 54.9 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as roughly balanced 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 VNS itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge SJS's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for VNS lists all sitting judges and their recorded outcome rates, making side-by-side comparison of caseloads and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.