# Judge Samuel G. Williams · Otero Immigration Court asylum records

From FY2021 to FY2025, 1 of 116 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code SGW at Otero were grants (0.86%) and 115 were denials (99.14%). In the same years, the court recorded 26.53% 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: 2,463
- asylum_proceedings: 380
- excluded_case_type: 0
- excluded_case_join: 0
- excluded_conflicting_outcomes: 1
- eligible_asylum: 379
- missing_completion: 8
- invalid_completion: 0
- after_cutoff: 0
- dated_asylum: 371
- missing_outcome: 45
- missing_outcome_and_date: 8
- dated_missing_outcome: 37
- grants: 1
- denials: 246

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: SGW
- Official EOIR court listing (checked 2026-09-16): Otero
- Recorded grant share, FY2021–FY2025, Otero: 0.86% (1 grants, 115 denials, N 116; 95% interval 0.15%–4.72%)
- Otero, same period: 26.53% (N 1,681)
- United States, same period: 37.33% (N 367,995)
- FY2026 through 2026-08-31 (partial year): 0.00% (N 128); court 6.99%
- Hearing dates recorded in the 2026-08 EOIR edition at Otero, 2026-09–2029-08: 104 master and 11 individual proceedings
- Records at 2 courts, FY2019–FY2026 (4 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/samuel-g-williams-sgw
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/samuel-g-williams-sgw.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 Samuel G. Williams · Otero Immigration Court asylum records.” https://asylumcompass.com/judge/samuel-g-williams-sgw. EOIR data through 2026-08-31.