Immigration judge Susan Phan
EOIR records Susan Phan as a serving immigration judge, code SPN, with 6,147 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 64.2% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 6,147
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 20.4% decided in absentia
- 10,731
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 64.2%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 906 granted of 1,411 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 906 asylum applications and denied 505 — 64.2% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 714 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 | 1,638 | 245 | 110 |
| FY2024 | 1,848 | 256 | 61 |
| FY2023 | 1,304 | 127 | 50 |
| FY2022 | 996 | 204 | 205 |
| FY2021 | 361 | 74 | 79 |
| FY2020 | 964 | 216 | 287 |
| FY2019 | 556 | 92 | 97 |
| FY2018 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 17 | 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