What is Judge SVA's grant rate?

Immigration Judge SVA has an overall grant rate of 69.8% across 106 decisions at the Boston Immigration Court. The denial rate is 30.2%.

Where does Judge SVA serve?

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

How many cases has Judge SVA decided?

Judge SVA has decided 106 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 74 grants and 32 denials.

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

No. Judge SVA's 69.8% 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 SVA

Name: Immigration Judge SVA - 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 SVA's 69.8% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Grant rate sits in the upper third of tracked IJs at 69.8% (above the 48.3% national average).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

69.8%
Asylum grant rate: 30.2%
Asylum denial rate: 106
Asylum decisions

Judge SVA in one line

Judge SVA's asylum grant rate is 69.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 106 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

69.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 106
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume: +21.5 pp
vs. national average

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"SVA" 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

106merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted74(70%)Denied32(30%)

Statistical data only. Judge SVA's 69.8% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge SVA 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)

69.8% 213th of 1696 higher than 1,483 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	53	41	12	77.4%
2023	53	33	20	62.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge SVA's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge SVA's 69.8% 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 SVA are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
PRM	69.8%	same	43	THIN	San Francisco
TJM	69.7%	-0.1 pp	922	FULL	New York - Varick Street
YEM	69.9%	+0.1 pp	166	LIGHT	Los Angeles - West
LGN	69.6%	-0.2 pp	1,472	FULL	New York - Federal Plaza
ISS	69.6%	-0.2 pp	247	LIGHT	San Francisco
SMS	70.1%	+0.3 pp	1,035	FULL	San Francisco

Same-bench poles at Boston

Same-bench spread at Boston: Judge SVA runs 69.8% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

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

IJ JCM · Laredo Immigration Court · 106 merits · 17.0% grant
IJ MP1 · Otero Immigration Court · 106 merits · 12.3% grant
IJ RJH · Los Angeles - West Immigration Court · 105 merits · 63.8% grant
IJ KCM · Annandale Immigration Court · 105 merits · 58.1% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge SVA at Boston Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge SVA's 106-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ SVA at Boston Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 69.8%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 106 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge SVA's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 69.8%, 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 SVA'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.