Immigration judge Samuel M. Factor
EOIR records Samuel M. Factor as a serving immigration judge, code SAF, with 6,365 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 57.1% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 6,365
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 20.9% decided in absentia
- 7,761
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 57.1%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 339 granted of 594 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 339 asylum applications and denied 255 — 57.1% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,683 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 | 2,038 | 53 | 83 |
| FY2024 | 1,864 | 66 | 55 |
| FY2023 | 1,196 | 73 | 66 |
| FY2022 | 1,047 | 128 | 39 |
| FY2021 | 220 | 19 | 12 |
| FY2020 | 549 | 95 | 99 |
| FY2019 | 872 | 185 | 145 |
| FY2018 | 39 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2017 | 91 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 127 | 0 | 0 |
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