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Judge Johnson, Jeremiah

SAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing
July 31, 2026
Next hearing
August 3, 2026 · 7,080 scheduled in all
Last decision
June 25, 2026
Courts worked at: 10

Hearings scheduled here

Worked here before

The periods overlap, and that is not an error: a judge hears cases at a new court while still closing out old ones at the previous one. Each row answers "when did this judge work here", not "from when to when did they serve here".

Status is derived from the court calendar: whether the judge has hearings scheduled after the release cutoff. The EOIR release carries no personnel data, so retirement, removal, elevation to the BIA and extended absence cannot be told apart — only what the data shows is stated here. Hearings are scheduled two to three years out, so an empty calendar for a working judge is rare; for judges who went quiet in the last few months it may still be an artifact of the cutoff, which lags by about a month. The lookup table's "active" flag is not used: it disagrees with the calendar for a third of judges.

83%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,452 decisions · FY1988–FY2026

95% interval: 81% — 85%

granted:
1,209
denied:
243
How this percentage is calculated
Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. The unit of count is a decision per proceeding, not per application: applicants almost always file asylum, withholding and CAT protection together. Withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

How this compares

  • This judge83% (1,452)
  • The whole court — SAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT56% (89,278)
  • All U.S. courts33% (1,350,724)

This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.

Trend by fiscal year

0%25%50%75%100%20182020202220242026

U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

FY2026 is incomplete: the release covers only 10 of its 12 months. Its point is drawn hollow and the segment leading to it is dashed.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (8): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

Show as a table
Grant rate by fiscal year
Perioddecisionsgranted95% interval
FY2026partial5859%46% — 70%
FY202513478%70% — 84%
FY20241771%47% — 87%
FY202325494%91% — 97%
FY202223492%88% — 95%
FY20219993%86% — 97%
FY202019976%70% — 82%
FY201929982%77% — 86%
FY201815076%69% — 82%
FY201410%0% — 79%
FY20131100%21% — 100%
FY200810%0% — 79%
FY200710%0% — 79%
FY200510%0% — 79%
FY200310%0% — 79%
FY200010%0% — 79%
FY199910%0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationalitydecisionsgranted95% interval
INDIA40987%83% — 90%
EL SALVADOR24983%78% — 87%
GUATEMALA23792%88% — 95%
MEXICO19166%59% — 72%
HONDURAS7182%71% — 89%
NEPAL5288%77% — 95%
CHINA4589%77% — 95%
RUSSIA2391%73% — 98%
NICARAGUA2259%39% — 77%
ERITREA2295%78% — 99%
COLOMBIA1267%39% — 86%
MONGOLIA1182%52% — 95%
AFGHANISTAN989%56% — 98%
UKRAINE7100%65% — 100%
BRAZIL771%36% — 92%

How long a case takes

How long it took from service of the NTA to the decision on the application, for the cases this judge has already finished.

46 mo

median

half of cases: 22—64 mo

based on 1,452 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided inCasesmedianhalf of cases, mo
FY20265851 mo7—93
FY202513467 mo42—89
FY202325457 mo46—70
FY202223455 mo46—67
FY20219962 mo39—71
FY202019940 mo21—55
FY201929916 mo12—25
FY201815036 mo30—58

Duration runs from the NTA date (charging document served) to the decision on the application. Median, not mean: the distribution has a long right tail. Cases decided this year may have begun a decade ago, so duration by year of decision is not a forecast for a case filed today.

The queue

Cases with no decision yet. A different figure from the duration of completed cases: quick cases leave the queue first, so the long ones accumulate among those still waiting.

No undecided cases in this release.

What became of appeals to the BIA

An immigration judge's decision can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals. This is what the Board did with those appeals. A high share of reversals and remands tells a different story than a low grant rate alone.

What became of appeals to the BIA
BIA decisionAppeals
Remand127
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision80
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)13
Summary Affirmance11
Denied11
Terminate-DHS PD5
Withdrawal of Appeal4
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief4
Termination4
Sustain4
ROP Returned to Court to correct deficiency3
Other3
Grant with no Remand2
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD2
Summarily Dismiss2
Administratively Closed-DHS PD2
Moot Bond1

Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not provide legal advice. The data lags by roughly a month; for current case status use ACIS and Respondent Access. The source is known to have missing records, including relief applications — absent data does not mean it is absent from your case.