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Immigration Judge SR1

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 922 merits decisions place Judge SR1 among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 922 decisions FY2015–2025 (#223 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

66.4%
Asylum grant rate
33.6%
Asylum denial rate
922
Asylum decisions

Judge SR1 in one line

Judge SR1's asylum grant rate is 66.4% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 922 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

66.4%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
922
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+18.1 pp
vs. national average
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"SR1" 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 SR1's 66.4% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge SR1 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)

66.4% 261st of 1696 higher than 1,435 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 %
2016 10 10 0 100.0%
2017 91 71 20 78.0%
2018 87 60 27 69.0%
2019 156 99 57 63.5%
2020 134 91 43 67.9%
2021 25 15 10 60.0%
2022 46 24 22 52.2%
2023 369 239 130 64.8%
2024 3 2 1 66.7%
2025 1 1 0 100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SR1's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge SR1's 66.4% 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 SR1 are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
SEB 66.6% +0.2 pp 1,465 FULL New York - Varick Street
KLD 66.2% -0.2 pp 801 FULL Chicago
THA 66.2% -0.2 pp 204 LIGHT New York - Varick Street
JHW 66.7% +0.3 pp 618 FULL Baltimore
AYG 66.7% +0.3 pp 75 THIN Philadelphia
BLH 66.7% +0.3 pp 42 THIN Salt Lake City

Same-bench poles at Newark

Same-bench spread at Newark: Judge SR1 runs 66.4% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Bench high
IJ AJR
86.9%
1,517 merits
Bench low
IJ MNS
10.8%
452 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 TJM · New York - Varick Street Immigration Court · 922 merits · 69.7% grant
  • IJ KWR · Los Angeles - N. Los Angeles Street Immigration Court · 922 merits · 9.3% grant
  • IJ AAM · Chicago Immigration Court · 921 merits · 67.6% grant
  • IJ CKI · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 924 merits · 64.6% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code SR1: 922 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SR1's 922-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SR1 at Newark Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 922. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 922 decisions FY2015–2025 (#223 of 1.7K).

Judge SR1's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 922, 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 SR1'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.