Immigration judge Steven A. Morley
EOIR records Steven A. Morley as a serving immigration judge, code SAM, with 2,701 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2024 and 52.1% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 2,701
- Proceedings completed, FY2020–2024
- 15.0% decided in absentia
- 1
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 52.1%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2020–2022
- 174 granted of 334 decided
Over the 3 fiscal years from 2020 to 2022, this judge granted 174 asylum applications and denied 160 — 52.1% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 472 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 51 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 1,067 | 54 | 29 |
| FY2021 | 735 | 43 | 37 |
| FY2020 | 787 | 77 | 94 |
| FY2019 | 1,074 | 76 | 99 |
| FY2018 | 1,016 | 66 | 67 |
| FY2017 | 915 | 69 | 36 |
| FY2016 | 1,373 | 49 | 22 |
| FY2015 | 1,181 | 17 | 23 |
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