# Judge Sam, IV Brown · Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court asylum records

From FY2021 to FY2025, 17 of 724 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code SBN at Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court were grants (2.35%) and 707 were denials (97.65%). In the same years, the court recorded 12.85% and the national figure was 37.33%. EOIR data through 2026-08-31; 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: 2026-08-31
- Identity: confirmed; linked; source_code_association_not_decision_authorship
- source_proceedings: 12,835
- asylum_proceedings: 5,987
- excluded_case_type: 0
- excluded_case_join: 0
- excluded_conflicting_outcomes: 0
- eligible_asylum: 5,987
- missing_completion: 1,035
- invalid_completion: 0
- after_cutoff: 0
- dated_asylum: 4,952
- missing_outcome: 1,357
- missing_outcome_and_date: 1,022
- dated_missing_outcome: 335
- grants: 41
- denials: 1,794

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: SBN
- Official EOIR court listing (checked 2026-09-16): Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court
- Recorded grant share, FY2021–FY2025, Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court: 2.35% (17 grants, 707 denials, N 724; 95% interval 1.47%–3.73%)
- Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court, same period: 12.85% (N 7,317)
- United States, same period: 37.33% (N 367,995)
- FY2026 through 2026-08-31 (partial year): 0.00% (N 375); court 2.24%
- Among 14 judge codes at this court with at least 100 grant-or-denial records in FY2021–FY2025: range 2.35%–46.00%, median 11.25%
- Hearing dates recorded in the 2026-08 EOIR edition at Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court, 2026-09–2029-08: 52 master and 847 individual proceedings
- Records at 5 courts, FY1991–FY2026 (23 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/sam-iv-brown-sbn
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/sam-iv-brown-sbn.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-2026-08-judge-records-v2/manifest.json
- Methodology: https://asylumcompass.com/methodology#historical-grant-share
- eoir:judge-records: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2)
- eoir:judge-coverage: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-source-coverage-manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-judge-source-coverage-v1)
- eoir:court-history: https://asylumcompass.com/history-data/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-population-history-v1)
- eoir:national: https://asylumcompass.com/data/eoir-2026-08-court-dispositions-v5/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-court-dispositions-v5)
- eoir:judge-directory: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings
- eoir:hearing-schedules: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-schedule-data/eoir-2026-08-judge-schedules-v2/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-judge-schedules-v2)
- License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Cite as: AsylumCompass. “Judge Sam, IV Brown · Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court asylum records.” https://asylumcompass.com/judge/sam-iv-brown-sbn. EOIR data through 2026-08-31.