What is Judge SPN's grant rate?

Immigration Judge SPN has an overall grant rate of 80.1% across 1,080 decisions at the Sacramento Immigration Court. The denial rate is 19.9%.

Where does Judge SPN serve?

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

How many cases has Judge SPN decided?

Judge SPN has decided 1,080 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 865 grants and 215 denials.

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

No. Judge SPN's 80.1% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge SPN

Name: Immigration Judge SPN - Case Outcome Data
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Published: 2025-09-30
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According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge SPN's 80.1% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,080 decisions FY2015–2025 (#164 of 1.7K).

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Data updated 2026-09-05

80.1%
Asylum grant rate: 19.9%
Asylum denial rate: 1,080
Asylum decisions

Judge SPN in one line

Judge SPN's asylum grant rate is 80.1% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,080 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

80.1%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,080
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +31.8 pp
vs. national average

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"SPN" 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

1,080merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted865(80%)Denied215(20%)

Statistical data only. Judge SPN's 80.1% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge SPN 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)

80.1% 108th of 1696 higher than 1,588 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 %
2022	19	16	3	84.2%
2023	196	149	47	76.0%
2024	358	298	60	83.2%
2025	507	402	105	79.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SPN's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge SPN's 80.1% grant rate, an upper-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 SPN are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
DKR	80.1%	same	1,078	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
CAC	80.1%	same	553	FULL	Hyattsville
RJA	80.0%	-0.1 pp	40	THIN	New York - Varick Street
EVS	80.2%	+0.1 pp	101	LIGHT	Hyattsville
BLF	79.8%	-0.3 pp	1,734	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
DDF	80.5%	+0.4 pp	41	THIN	New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Sacramento

Same-bench spread at Sacramento: Judge SPN runs 80.1% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 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 ERT · Denver Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 61.5% grant
IJ MAC · Fort Snelling Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 49.9% grant
IJ DDE · Seattle Immigration Court · 1,081 merits · 33.0% grant
IJ DKR · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 1,078 merits · 80.1% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code SPN: 1,080 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SPN's 1,080-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SPN at Sacramento Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 80.1%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,080 decisions FY2015–2025 (#164 of 1.7K).

Judge SPN's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 80.1%, 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 SPN'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.