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Immigration Judge SNM

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: denial rate 88.2% is Judge SNM's most extreme outcome share in the corpus. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked IJs at 11.8% (below the 48.3% national average). Merits volume is thin-corpus at 68 decisions FY2015–2025.

Data updated 2026-09-05

11.8%
Asylum grant rate
88.2%
Asylum denial rate
68
Asylum decisions

Judge SNM in one line

Judge SNM's asylum grant rate is 11.8% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 68 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

11.8%
Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
68
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-36.5 pp
vs. national average
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"SNM" 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 SNM's 88.2% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge SNM 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)

11.8% 1529th of 1696 higher than 167 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 %
2020 19 3 16 15.8%
2021 41 5 36 12.2%
2022 6 0 6 0.0%
2023 2 0 2 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SNM's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge SNM's 11.8% grant rate, a lower-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge SNM are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
JSI 11.8% same 34 THIN Aurora
RHC 11.7% -0.1 pp 240 LIGHT Annandale
KHS 12.0% +0.2 pp 142 LIGHT Dallas
SME 12.0% +0.2 pp 25 THIN Houston - Smith Street
VRW 12.0% +0.2 pp 25 THIN San Francisco
CAG 11.6% -0.2 pp 249 LIGHT Oakdale

Same-bench poles at Adelanto

Same-bench spread at Adelanto: Judge SNM runs 11.8% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ KAR · Elizabeth Immigration Court · 68 merits · 16.2% grant
  • IJ ZRA · Boston Immigration Court · 68 merits · 2.9% grant
  • IJ GRG · El Paso Service Processing Center Immigration Court · 68 merits · 1.5% grant
  • IJ SAR · Florence Immigration Court · 68 merits · 1.5% grant

Lower-third grant-rate IJ code SNM (11.8%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SNM at Adelanto Immigration Court; asylum denial rate 88.2%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 68 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge SNM's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum denial rate 88.2%, 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 SNM'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.