Immigration judge Sandra S. Coleman

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Sandra S. Coleman
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Sandra S. Coleman as a former immigration judge, code SSC, with 1,400 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2008. Of the 623 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2004–2005, 484 were granted (77.7%) and 139 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 38.3% across every immigration court in the country.

What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

1,400
Proceedings completed, FY2004–2008: 16.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 77.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2004–2005: 484 granted of 623 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2004–2005)

Every immigration court in the country: 38.3% granted; 24,738 of 64,655 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 2 fiscal years from 2004 to 2005, this judge granted 484 asylum applications and denied 139 — 77.7% of those decided. A further 231 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Sandra S. Coleman completed 3 proceedings in FY2008, against 533 in FY1998

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

Immigration judge Sandra S. Coleman completed 3 proceedings in FY2008, against 533 in FY1998. 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.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2008	3	0	0	0	0
FY2007	0	0	0	0	0
FY2005	730	107	267	75	122
FY2004	667	122	217	64	109
FY2003	606	129	214	39	84
FY2002	419	62	196	37	55
FY2001	407	82	66	29	86
FY2000	579	68	62	38	185
FY1999	657	147	54	51	197
FY1998	533	293	26	35	360

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

Immigration courts where Sandra S. Coleman completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Miami, FL (MIA)	4,603
New York, NY (NYC)	34
Miami, FL (KRO)	21

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 September 1, 2026