Immigration judge Brian Sardelli
EOIR records Brian Sardelli as a serving immigration judge, code BSI, with 11,027 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 654 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 112 were granted (17.1%) and 542 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 21.2% at the Fort Snelling, MN court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 11,027
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 35.8% decided in absentia
- 5,225
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 17.1%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 112 granted of 654 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 37.3% granted
- 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
- The Fort Snelling, MN court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 21.2% granted
- 948 of 4,466 asylum applications decided
For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 112 asylum applications and denied 542 — 17.1% of those decided. A further 2,310 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Brian Sardelli completed 3,503 proceedings in FY2025, against 51 in FY2016
Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year
The figures behind this chart
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3,503 | 1,640 | 17 | 264 | 635 |
| FY2024 | 3,064 | 996 | 24 | 46 | 799 |
| FY2023 | 2,608 | 1,064 | 44 | 146 | 358 |
| FY2022 | 1,471 | 246 | 22 | 63 | 437 |
| FY2021 | 381 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 81 |
| FY2020 | 611 | 260 | 7 | 100 | 54 |
| FY2019 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| FY2016 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.
Where the proceedings were
The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.
Sources
- EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · retrieved September 1, 2026
- EOIR immigration judges and courts
Data retrieved