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In FY2025, 55.44% of 4,443 asylum grant-or-denial records at this court were grants (national: 23.13%).

Historical asylum grant share

FY2025 · 2024-10-01–2025-09-30

55.44%

2,463Grant records
1,980Denial records
4,443Outcome records

Recorded grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials): 2,463 ÷ (2,463 + 1,980) = 55.44%.

95% statistical interval: 53.97%–56.89%

United States overall: 23.13% · +32.31 percentage points compared with this parent cohort.

San Francisco · SFR
55.44%N 4,443
United States overall
23.13%N 124,581

Among immigration courts

70 immigration courts have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2025. Their recorded grant shares range from 1.52% to 72.66%; the median is 17.47%. The larger dot is this court.

Among recorded asylum application grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same immigration-court proceeding; abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed and other outcomes are excluded. One case may contribute more than one proceeding.

This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.

Use historical results to understand past cases, not to forecast an individual outcome.

Source files and checks

Removal, deportation, exclusion and asylum-only proceedings. ASYL grant codes G/I/P; denial D. Other outcomes are excluded from this denominator. Conflicting applications and inconsistent case links are excluded.

Judge attribution uses the proceeding’s IJ_CODE assignment. It does not establish who personally authored every decision. Court attribution uses the proceeding’s recorded court, which may differ from historical hearing venue.

This interval describes binomial sampling variability only; it does not account for administrative errors, case mix, attribution uncertainty, or selection bias.

The source has known malformed lines: 357 physical lines were rejected; accepted logical rows are 262 below EOIR’s count file. Statistics describe accepted records. The official asylum report uses a different unit and will not exactly match these totals.

Source
EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08
Metric version
Metric M1.1.0
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2026-09-14
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Release manifest · Full methodology

EOIR public CASE data · 2026-08Population history · eoir-2026-08-population-history-v1Provenance

Why published asylum statistics can differ

Published asylum statistics can use different record units, outcome fields and reporting periods. This site counts eligible grant-or-denial outcomes linked within the same proceeding; a case can contribute more than one proceeding.

Full annual history

This series counts eligible proceedings directly from the normalized source, including records without a resolved public judge identity. Stored completion dates do not prove decision authorship or judge appointment dates.

Historical record court · SFR

Grant and denial results by fiscal year

Every fiscal year in the source, newest first. FY2021–FY2025 are the complete years used for comparisons; the change column compares complete years with at least 100 results each.

Completion fiscal year · grant and denial results
Fiscal yearGrantedDeniedGrant or denial results (N)Grant share (G / N)All eligible recordsChange from prior FY (percentage points)
FY2026 · Partial year2871,5931,88015.27%8,409—
FY20252,4631,9804,44355.44%15,232−13.96
FY20243,6641,6165,28069.39%16,168−9.80
FY20235,8251,5307,35579.20%14,340+3.19
FY20224,5041,4225,92676.00%10,917+9.16
FY20211,7728792,65166.84%5,011+13.72
FY20203,2932,9066,19953.12%9,158−14.67
FY20193,6621,7405,40267.79%9,380+0.05
FY20181,6197712,39067.74%5,752−6.41
FY20171,3574731,83074.15%4,151+0.08
FY20169943481,34274.07%3,898−0.12
FY201563822286074.19%2,715+13.74
FY201459639098660.45%2,624+1.58
FY20136744711,14558.86%2,876+1.95
FY20126755111,18656.91%2,892+9.88
FY20116277061,33347.04%2,436−3.16
FY20105185141,03250.19%2,190+2.46
FY20095786331,21147.73%2,472+3.26
FY20086397981,43744.47%2,931−1.87
FY20078369681,80446.34%4,010−3.51
FY20069859911,97649.85%4,564+5.73
FY20059231,1692,09244.12%5,578+1.70
FY20041,2881,7483,03642.42%9,587+0.87
FY20031,4942,1013,59541.56%9,794−15.12
FY20021,1979152,11256.68%4,800−6.72
FY20011,1766791,85563.40%4,346+9.23
FY20001,0608971,95754.16%4,946+13.87
FY19996751,0001,67540.30%5,170+3.61
FY19986241,0771,70136.68%5,710−2.46
FY19975378351,37239.14%4,641+2.04
FY19966041,0241,62837.10%4,511+6.13
FY19953988871,28530.97%2,384−10.58
FY199441157898941.56%1,516−6.11
FY199338842681447.67%1,306−0.96
FY199242645087648.63%1,597+9.31
FY19914276591,08639.32%3,638−7.14
FY19907428551,59746.46%1,935−4.65
FY19895515271,07851.11%1,307−7.91
FY198856639395959.02%1,524+14.06
FY198722327349644.96%1,480+15.08
FY198620548168629.88%1,106+11.61
FY19857031338318.28%446—
FY198440579741.24%104—
FY19839213030.00%33—
FY198225728.57%7—
FY19810110.00%1—
FY1980101100.00%1—
FY19750110.00%1—

Other saved application results

These categories are part of all eligible records above; they are outside grant plus denial (N).

Other result categories · completion fiscal year
Fiscal yearRecorded as abandonedRecorded as withdrawnRecorded as not adjudicatedRecorded as administratively closedOther recorded categoriesNo application result recorded
FY2026 · Partial year1,87561789814112,997
FY20252,1106732,83957514,591
FY20248145446,07192802,531
FY20235477194,0161,2650438
FY20223336253,234698398
FY20212685121,216296266
FY20205536161,5381265121
FY20195835362,1291867834
FY20182893715543261,8211
FY201726140346739773
FY201612733124651,6310
FY2015122359001,3731
FY2014111398011,1271
FY2013135481001,1150
FY2012113411001,1802
FY2011130350506153
FY2010963730067910
FY2009132435106921
FY2008147635017074
FY2007190922101,08211
FY20062241,241101,11012
FY20052861,811101,37117
FY20046843,035302,81613
FY20039122,969002,3135
FY2002332764101,5874
FY2001268701001,5184
FY2000418832201,7307
FY1999435966002,06925
FY19981141,275002,59822
FY19970476002,78211
FY19962284002,57423
FY199500001,08019
FY1994000051314
FY1993000048111
FY1992000069922
FY199100002,50943
FY199000003326
FY198900002245
FY198800005614
FY1987000096816
FY198600044124
FY19854001580
FY1984010060
FY1983000030
FY1982000000
FY1981000000
FY1980000000
FY1975000000

Judge identity coverage

Public judge identity linkage · completion fiscal year
Fiscal yearRecords linked to public judge identitiesUnresolved judge records
FY2026 · Partial year8,4090
FY202515,2275
FY202416,1644
FY202314,3400
FY202210,9170
FY20215,0110
FY20209,1553
FY20199,3782
FY20185,72923
FY20174,10447
FY20163,82375
FY20152,62788
FY20142,57648
FY20132,81462
FY20122,84349
FY20112,41422
FY20102,12070
FY20092,42151
FY20082,90922
FY20074,0082
FY20064,5622
FY20055,5780
FY20049,5834
FY20039,7895
FY20024,7991
FY20014,3442
FY20004,9433
FY19995,15416
FY19985,7064
FY19974,6401
FY19964,5110
FY19952,3831
FY19941,5160
FY19931,3060
FY19921,5970
FY19913,62018
FY19901,91619
FY19891,29116
FY19881,5213
FY19871,4800
FY19861,1042
FY19854442
FY19841040
FY1983330
FY198270
FY198110
FY198010
FY197510

Public FY2021–FY2025 grant and denial counts reconcile with the existing M1 tables. Missing years have no eligible dated rows, not verified zero activity.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-population-history-v1 · Original EOIR data export · Sources and data version

Historical completed-proceeding duration

FY2025 · proceeding input to completion · EOIR 2026-08

584 days25% completed within
1,000 daysMedian
2,224.5 days75% completed within
3,012 days90% completed within

N = 4,443 valid records · 0 records excluded for missing or invalid dates.

This is the historical INPUT_DATE-to-COMP_DATE interval for eligible proceeding records, not the total elapsed time of an entire immigration case or a prediction for an unfinished case.

Saved future hearing schedules

1 master and individual schedule records passed the future-observation checks in the EOIR snapshot dated 2026-08-31. They are stored under the court code for San Francisco · SFR Immigration Court.

Middle saved schedule month: 2027-08. Half of these saved future observations fall in that month or earlier.

Saved future schedule observations by calendar months after the snapshot cutoff
Distance from snapshotRecordsShare
1–3 months00.0%
4–6 months00.0%
7–12 months1100.0%
13 or more months00.0%

A saved future schedule is not a verified hearing and can change. This is the distance from the snapshot date to a scheduled month, not how long a case has waited or how long remains for a person. The records have no published judge-level breakdown.

Explore this court’s saved hearing schedules · Schedule lead method

Source: EOIR saved hearing schedules, 2026-08-31 snapshotSources and snapshot dates

Lawyer-record comparison

San Francisco · SFR · All nationalities

FY2025

Lawyer / representative record found

60.99%

G 2,342 / D 1,498 / N 3,840

No qualifying lawyer / representative record found

20.07%

G 121 / D 482 / N 603

40.9 percentage points between the two groups · FY2025

A filing was found in the data. It does not confirm help at the decision. No matching filing does not prove there was no legal help. These numbers do not show what caused the difference.

Proceedings entered in earlier years

Proceedings grouped by the court stored in the 2026-08 snapshot. This does not reconstruct the original court at entry after transfers.

Completion recorded by 2026-08-31

0%25%50%75%100%FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025100.00%99.97%100.00%99.98%99.96%
Latest year
99.96%FY2025 · 5,183 records
Highest year
100.00%FY2021 · 7,516 records
Lowest year
99.96%FY2025 · 5,183 records
Published years
5FY2021–FY2025
Completion recorded by 2026-08-31
FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Recorded share100.00%99.97%100.00%99.98%99.96%
7,516 records15,638 records18,350 records22,109 records5,183 records
Input fiscal year · proceeding records, including administrative and repeated proceedings
CourtEntered FYNCompletion recordedNo completion entry or unresolvedCompleted duration Q25 / median / Q75 / P90 days
San Francisco · SFR20217,5167,516 · 100.00%0275 / 648 / 1,096 / 1,438
San Francisco · SFR202215,63815,633 · 99.97%5238 / 429 / 765 / 1,143
San Francisco · SFR202318,35018,350 · 100.00%0280 / 516 / 778 / 964.1
San Francisco · SFR202422,10922,105 · 99.98%4144 / 341 / 545 / 714
San Francisco · SFR20255,1835,181 · 99.96%238 / 132 / 284 / 417

Completion can be a transfer or an administrative event. Missing and inconsistent completion states are combined as a descriptive category; this is not a verified pending count. Newer cohorts have shorter observation time.

Judge listings and historical records

The checked official listing and the historical records stored under this court are separate facts, shown side by side. A listing does not move old records, and old records do not show a current assignment.

Directory checked: EOIR hearing directory

Distribution across published judges · FY2025

18 judge-at-court cohorts with N ≥ 100. Median historical grant share: 65.97%; middle half: 51.53%–78.29%.

Unweighted mean: 62.28%; range: 15.27%–91.67%; standard deviation: 20.97 percentage points.

Each judge code counts equally here; the court overall statistic pools eligible outcome records. Judge-code groups with fewer than 100 grant or denial records at this court in FY2025 are not included. Court distribution method

Judge groups use the code saved on each EOIR proceeding. It identifies the assigned judge, not a verified author of every outcome. How judge figures work

Other judges with records at this court (446)

Not on the checked official listing. Each name opens the judge’s historical rows for this court; years describe the saved record coverage.

A dash under published statistics means no grant or denial is saved for that judge at this court; other saved results can still be listed. The name opens the judge profile and its full historical context.

Recorded BIA appeals associated with this court

These are recorded BIA appeal events linked to proceedings stored under this EOIR court code. They do not measure court quality or predict an individual appeal.

Decision FY2021–FY2025 pooled · IJ Case Appeals · source cutoff 2026-08-31

BIA patterns can change over time. These figures describe recorded dispositions during the displayed historical period, not a permanent characteristic of a person, court or nationality. Changes may coincide with law, policy, administration, BIA composition, case mix or backlog; these data alone do not establish why.

Recorded BIA dispositions associated with this stored court code
Filed byAppeal events (denominator)DIS · recorded dismissal/affirmanceREM · remand as recordedSUS · appeal sustained as recordedOther · mixed recorded dispositions
Respondent-filed (A)4,7142,957 · 62.7%715 · 15.2%0 · 0.0%1,042 · 22.1%
DHS-filed (I)1,1963 · 0.3%1,057 · 88.4%6 · 0.5%130 · 10.9%

Each row uses its own filing-party denominator. “Other” combines different recorded categories; REM is not an asylum grant, and SUS depends on who filed.

About these records

All recorded filing parties · National parent appeal events: 119,252 · Linked to a stored court code: 119,223 · Not court-attributed: 29.

Court field: B_TblProceeding.BASE_CITY_CODE · Period: decision FY2021–FY2025 · Snapshot: 2026-08 EOIR Case Data · Source cutoff: 2026-08-31.

The stored court code does not establish which court issued the original decision. Chronology conflicts and unresolved links remain in the national residual; they are not assigned to a court.

Court location and official page

100 MONTGOMERY ST., SUITE 800, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Historical administrative directory; current location not verified

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Continue from these outcomes

Each link opens a separate public record set. Its population and period may differ from the grant and denial figures above.

New in this package: additional asylum result categories have published counts for this court. Review source and release details

Data and sources

Coverage and source versions are listed separately from publication, acquisition and later checks. A check does not extend the records beyond their cutoff.

EOIR public CASE data

Used on this page: Historical court outcomes and related record measures

Historical result coverageFY1975–FY2026 · Partial year: FY2026

Source edition2026-08

Source snapshot cutoff

The first and last available fiscal years bound this range; intervening years may have no records.

Standard comparison periodFY2021–FY2025

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Official court directory

Used on this page: Court contacts in the saved court directory

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Official ZIP-to-court assignments

Used on this page: Saved ZIP associations; they do not determine legal venue

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Census 2020 ZCTA boundaries

Used on this page: ZIP reference areas; geographic approximations, not court jurisdiction

Source edition2020

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Census 2020 state boundaries

Used on this page: Simplified state outlines on the maps

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