Ronald G. Sonom — Historical EOIR code records

This historical identity has not been confirmed. Records cannot be attributed to this person.

In FY2005, 69 of 326 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code RGS at Miami · MIA were grants (21.17%) and 257 were denials (78.83%). That year, the court recorded 21.62%. EOIR data through 2026-08-31; past records do not predict an individual case.

Recorded grant share · Miami · MIA

Period

21.17%Grants 69 · Denials 257 · N 326
95% interval: 17.08%–25.92%

Judge code RGS: 21.17%N 326
Miami · MIA: 21.62%N 6,560; No court figure for this period
United States · all courts: No national figure is published for this period

Among comparable judge codes at this court

21 judge codes at this court have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2005. Their recorded grant shares range from 0.72% to 78.01%; the median is 18.63%.

Record coverage: 7 courts with recordsFY1988–FY2006 · 26 court-years · Courts are not pooled
Data through: 2026-08-31EOIR records · not on the official listing checked 2026-09-16Data and sources

Historical outcomes by court

Each row is a fiscal year at the court stored on the dated record. Courts are not pooled; an official listing never moves old results to a new court. Small groups remain visible and are labeled.

Judge figures group saved asylum outcomes by the judge code on each EOIR proceeding. The code identifies the assigned judge; these records do not verify who personally made every application decision. How judge figures work

Recorded grant share by fiscal year at Miami · MIA

Judge code RGS
Miami · MIA

National figures are published for FY2021–FY2025. A broken ring marks a value from fewer than 100 records.

Recorded grant and denial outcomes · EOIR dated records
Completion FY	Recorded grant share	Total (N)	Grant records	Denial records	95% interval
Miami · MIA Explore this court's full context
FY2006	15.48%Small sample	84	13	71	9.27%–24.70%
FY2005	21.17%	326	69	257	17.08%–25.92%
FY2004	17.28%	301	52	249	13.42%–21.95%
FY2003	14.76%	210	31	179	10.60%–20.19%
FY2002	12.87%	171	22	149	8.65%–18.71%
FY2001	21.50%	107	23	84	14.77%–30.19%
FY2000	16.48%Small sample	91	15	76	10.25%–25.43%
FY1999	7.95%Small sample	88	7	81	3.91%–15.52%
FY1998	23.16%Small sample	95	22	73	15.82%–32.58%
FY1997	10.71%	112	12	100	6.24%–17.80%
FY1996	11.19%	134	15	119	6.90%–17.65%
FY1995	21.30%	108	23	85	14.63%–29.93%
FY1994	0.00%Small sample	4	0	4	0.00%–48.99%
FY1990	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY1988	0.00%Small sample	3	0	3	<0.01%–56.15%
Miami · KRO Explore this court's full context
FY2004	0.00%Small sample	3	0	3	<0.01%–56.15%
FY1997	100.00%Small sample	1	1	0	20.65%–100.00%
FY1996	0.00%Small sample	2	0	2	0.00%–65.76%
Detroit · DET Explore this court's full context
FY2003	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY2002	35.71%Small sample	14	5	9	16.34%–61.24%
New York - Federal Plaza · NYC Explore this court's full context
FY2002	60.00%Small sample	5	3	2	23.07%–88.24%
FY1998	0.00%Small sample	3	0	3	<0.01%–56.15%
FY1994	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
Elizabeth · ELZ Explore this court's full context
FY2001	100.00%Small sample	1	1	0	20.65%–100.00%
Memphis · MEM Explore this court's full context
FY2000	33.33%Small sample	6	2	4	9.68%–70.00%
Guaynabo · SAJ Explore this court's full context
FY1998	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%

Small sample: fewer than 100 grant or denial records. This share can swing widely.

These records do not predict an individual result or measure judge quality. A person may have more than one proceeding.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2 · Source files and checks · Attribution details

Hearing schedule

One proceeding record is not necessarily a separate hearing session.

Asylum-associated records are a subset of All proceedings.

Schedule display range: 2026-09–2029-08 (36 months)

Historical schedule records exist, but no future hearing date is recorded for this selection in this edition.

Detroit · DET

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Elizabeth · ELZ

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Miami · KRO

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Memphis · MEM

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Miami · MIA

Historical schedule records exist, but no future hearing date is recorded for this selection in this edition.

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

New Orleans · NOL

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

New York - Federal Plaza · NYC

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Philadelphia · PHI

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Guaynabo · SAJ

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Dated result records

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Monthly record distribution for this selection

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Recorded as abandoned
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Exact monthly record counts
Calendar month	Granted	Denied	Recorded as abandoned	Recorded as withdrawn	Recorded as not adjudicated	Recorded as administratively closed	Other recorded categories	No application result recorded	Total records	Grant or denial results (N)	Recorded grant share

Grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials). Other categories are excluded; a zero denominator is not calculable.

Empty months mean no eligible source rows in this selection, not verified inactivity.

Filtered records by court and fiscal year

All eight saved result categories · same filters as the result list
Historical record court	Fiscal year	Granted	Denied	Recorded as abandoned	Recorded as withdrawn	Recorded as not adjudicated	Recorded as administratively closed	Other recorded categories	No application result recorded	Total records

Each row totals its eight categories using the current filters. Fiscal years run from 10-01 through 09-30.

One row per eligible proceeding · latest completion date first
Proceeding completion date	Historical record court	Saved application result

Counts use stored proceeding completion dates and judge codes. Later source releases may revise earlier records.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2 · Source files and checks

Recorded BIA appeals associated with this judge code

These records are linked to proceedings carrying this EOIR judge code in the 2026-08 source snapshot. The data do not establish that the coded judge personally issued the decision under BIA review.

Historical decision FY2021–FY2025 pooled · respondent-filed appeals (A)

No qualifying respondent-filed BIA appeal events are recorded for this judge code in the displayed population and period. This does not establish no service or no decisions.

About these records

Questions about these records

Is this the judge’s asylum approval or denial rate?

It is the recorded grant share: of 326 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code RGS at Miami · MIA in FY2005, 69 were grants (21.17%) and 257 were denials (78.83%).

Withdrawals, abandonment, administrative closure and other outcomes are outside this denominator. The judge code identifies the assigned judge; it does not prove who decided each application.

Why do other websites show a different number?

Publications count different things. This page counts asylum applications that ended in a grant or a denial in EOIR’s public CASE data, by fiscal year, at the court stored on each proceeding, and never pools courts.

Other reports may count other relief, such as withholding of removal or protection under the Convention Against Torture, count decisions rather than proceedings, combine courts or use other years. Compare the period, the population and N before comparing percentages.

Why are courts listed separately?

Each record keeps the court stored on its proceeding. This judge code has grant or denial records at 7 courts. They are shown separately and never pooled, and the official listing does not move older records to a new court.

What does a small sample mean here?

When fewer than 100 grant or denial records stand behind a share, one or two decisions can move it by several percentage points. Such figures are marked † or labeled as a small sample, and the 95% interval shows how wide the uncertainty is.

Can these numbers predict my case?

No. They describe past records under a judge code. The outcome of a case depends on its own facts, evidence and law. For advice about your case, talk to a qualified lawyer or accredited representative.

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Data and sources

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-source-coverage-v1

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

Result record coverage

7,444Associated proceeding records

3,983Proceedings linked to asylum applications

3,983Eligible dated asylum records

1,873Dated grant or denial records

All courts and all stored dates in this source edition. These coverage counts do not change with the result-list filters.

Historical record courts: 8
Earliest recorded completion FY: FY1987
Latest recorded completion FY: FY2008

Why some source records are outside the dated results

20 eligible asylum records have no application result; 20 of them appear in the dated list.

A blank date or result does not establish a pending case, an undecided application, or the absence of a decision. Missing dates are not assigned to an assumed fiscal year.

All eligible dated result categories are included through the source cutoff, without aggregate suppression filters.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · FY2026 is incomplete. Earlier stored dates may predate a judge’s appointment because assignment and saved completion date describe different events.

Nationality and representation selections do not filter this list. Case identifiers and personal attributes are not included.

Available historical coverage

Source coverage includes all normalized dated records for this identity. It is not verified decision authorship or a complete case history.

Coverage counting rules

Counts describe stored proceedings associated with the judge code, not unique cases, people, or verified decision authorship. Asylum applications are combined per proceeding using the same joins and conflict rules as the dated list.

3,983 asylum-linked proceedings meet the proceeding-type, case-link and result-consistency rules. These eligible records split into missing dates, invalid dates, dates after the cutoff, and dated records through the cutoff.

The dated list includes all saved result categories, including a blank result. Grant share uses only dated grants divided by dated grants plus denials; other categories are excluded.

These are saved results on proceedings assigned to the selected judge in EOIR data, not independently verified decision authorship. The application result has no separate decision timestamp. Completion dates may reflect a different event or later edits.

Each row represents one eligible proceeding after duplicate application rows are combined. Identical dates and results can appear multiple times. A person may have multiple proceedings. Within-day order does not indicate the sequence of decisions.

The public timeline includes all eight saved result categories and all stored completion years through the source cutoff. Conflicting application outcomes and inconsistent case joins remain excluded. Complete records can reconstruct counts hidden in legacy aggregate tables; those tables no longer provide a non-reconstruction guarantee.

Coverage counts Source files and checks

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Directory checked: 2026-09-16EOIR hearing directory

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Hearing schedule sources

Schedule filtering and source checks

The 2026-08 EOIR edition is grouped using a source cutoff of 2026-08-31. Counts describe proceeding records with retained future hearing dates, grouped by the judge and court codes stored on each schedule record. Records with a handling reason and other excluded records are kept outside the counts; records that cannot be confirmed are listed separately. All proceedings includes the reliably identified asylum-associated subset.

Later recorded hearing dates are included in the source coverage summary.

All proceedings · future hearing dates through 2036-08-31

These source coverage counts include all proceedings and do not change with the proceedings filter above.