Immigration judge Stephen E. Mander
EOIR records Stephen E. Mander as a serving immigration judge, code SEM, with 6,592 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 40.7% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 6,592
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 8.3% decided in absentia
- 1,179
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 40.7%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 118 granted of 290 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 118 asylum applications and denied 172 — 40.7% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,867 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2,303 | 14 | 65 |
| FY2024 | 1,503 | 26 | 23 |
| FY2023 | 1,460 | 38 | 59 |
| FY2022 | 1,012 | 36 | 23 |
| FY2021 | 314 | 4 | 2 |
| FY2020 | 529 | 18 | 126 |
| FY2019 | 825 | 35 | 139 |
| FY2018 | 543 | 40 | 64 |
| FY2017 | 536 | 24 | 35 |
| FY2016 | 618 | 16 | 7 |
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 · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
- EOIR immigration judges and courts
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