# Judge Jose L. Penalosa Jr. · San Diego Immigration Court asylum records

In FY2026, 4 of 188 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code JPJ at San Diego were grants (2.13%) and 184 were denials (97.87%). That year, the court recorded 3.50% and the national figure was 6.66%. EOIR data through 2026-09-30; past records do not predict an individual case.

## Source record coverage

Dated asylum records and recorded grants or denials are available. Explore them by court and fiscal year below.

- State: available
- Scope: source_edition_all_courts_all_stored_dates
- Cutoff: 2026-09-30
- Identity: confirmed; linked; source_code_association_not_decision_authorship
- source_proceedings: 15,914
- asylum_proceedings: 2,436
- excluded_case_type: 0
- excluded_case_join: 0
- excluded_conflicting_outcomes: 1
- eligible_asylum: 2,435
- missing_completion: 436
- invalid_completion: 0
- after_cutoff: 0
- dated_asylum: 1,999
- missing_outcome: 605
- missing_outcome_and_date: 434
- dated_missing_outcome: 171
- grants: 210
- denials: 753

Coverage is independent of the summary period and all current record filters.
Missing completion dates and missing outcomes are independent and may overlap; do not add them.
A blank field does not establish pending status, lack of a decision or dates of service.

- Judge code: JPJ
- Official EOIR court listing (checked 2026-10-24): San Diego
- Preferred fiscal year: FY2026; state=available; stored court=SND; dated proceeding records=322
- Recorded grant share, FY2026, San Diego: 2.13% (4 grants, 184 denials, N 188; 95% interval 0.83%–5.34%)
- San Diego, same period: 3.50% (N 858)
- United States, same period: 6.66% (N 158,532)
- Hearing dates recorded in the 2026-09 EOIR edition at Adelanto · ADL, 2026-10–2029-09: 1 master and 0 individual proceedings
- Records at 7 courts, FY1998–FY2026 (32 court-years); courts are not pooled

## How to read these figures

- A judge code identifies the assigned judge; these records do not prove who decided each application.
- Courts are shown separately and never pooled.
- A recorded grant share is grants divided by grants plus denials; other outcomes are outside the denominator.
- Past records do not predict an individual case.

## Sources

- Page: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/jose-l-penalosa-jr-jpj
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/jose-l-penalosa-jr-jpj.json
- EOIR CASE data: https://fileshare.eoir.justice.gov/EOIR%20Case%20Data.zip
- Judge record files and checks: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json
- Methodology: https://asylumcompass.com/methodology#historical-grant-share
- eoir:judge-records: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:judge-coverage: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-source-coverage/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:court-history: https://asylumcompass.com/history-data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:national: https://asylumcompass.com/data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:judge-directory: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings
- eoir:hearing-schedules: https://asylumcompass.com/data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/release-index.json (eoir-2026-09-judge-schedules-v1)
- License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Cite as: AsylumCompass. “Judge Jose L. Penalosa Jr. · San Diego Immigration Court asylum records.” https://asylumcompass.com/judge/jose-l-penalosa-jr-jpj. EOIR data through 2026-09-30.