Immigration Judge SPN

Case Insights: Judge SPN

Immigration Judge SPN has issued 2,826 recorded decisions at the SMO in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those decisions, 2,340 resulted in relief granted (82.8%), 50 were denied (1.8%), and 436 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (15.4%). That volume places Judge SPN among a substantial docket at the SMO.

The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is 81.0 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as grant-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 SMO itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge SPN's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for SMO 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.