Immigration judge Sam, IV Brown
EOIR records Sam, IV Brown as a serving immigration judge, code SBN, with 7,361 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 2.5% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 7,361
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 23.7% decided in absentia
- 1,273
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 2.5%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 19 granted of 759 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 19 asylum applications and denied 740 — 2.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,810 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,612 | 7 | 362 |
| FY2024 | 2,285 | 2 | 75 |
| FY2023 | 2,049 | 4 | 166 |
| FY2022 | 1,198 | 6 | 119 |
| FY2021 | 217 | 0 | 18 |
| FY2020 | 1,372 | 9 | 357 |
| FY2019 | 1,023 | 12 | 317 |
| FY2018 | 55 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 19 | 0 | 3 |
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