8 judges · CA
The Sacramento, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 14.2% across 16,778 decided cases. The court has 8 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Sacramento, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 14.2% in the current AsylumTracker dataset. Court-level statistics aggregate judges and cases assigned to that court, so the court average can differ sharply from any one judge's profile.
High-volume judge profiles at this court include Geisse, Loreto (8,920 total cases), Phan, Susan (4,949 total cases), and Halperin, Ravit R. (2,597 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (4,294 decided, 11.5% grant rate), Russia (2,758 decided, 78.1% grant rate), and India (2,515 decided, 73.7% grant rate).
Asylum grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Procedural outcomes are separated so users can distinguish merits decisions from docket-management outcomes.
This page uses public EOIR records last updated 2026-05-08. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geisse, Loreto | 41.6% | 773 | 1,085 | 1,858 |
| Phan, Susan | 34.3% | 1,436 | 2,752 | 4,188 |
| Halperin, Ravit R. | 3.7% | 88 | 2,286 | 2,374 |
| Badrinath, Vikram | 44.0% | 888 | 1,130 | 2,018 |
| Hong, Andrea | 27.2% | 412 | 1,101 | 1,513 |
| Hitesman, Jonathan W. | 13.7% | 189 | 1,186 | 1,375 |
| White, Curtis G. | 11.5% | 158 | 1,219 | 1,377 |
| Hunter, Denise | 47.5% | 664 | 734 | 1,398 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 11.5% | 492 | 3,802 | 4,294 |
| Russia | 78.1% | 2,155 | 603 | 2,758 |
| India | 73.7% | 1,853 | 662 | 2,515 |
| Guatemala | 16.1% | 204 | 1,067 | 1,271 |
| Nicaragua | 16.1% | 170 | 883 | 1,053 |
| Afghanistan | 50.9% | 404 | 390 | 794 |
| Honduras | 12.9% | 97 | 654 | 751 |
| El Salvador | 28.4% | 211 | 531 | 742 |
| Colombia | 3.7% | 16 | 419 | 435 |
| Peru | 2.3% | 7 | 303 | 310 |
| Romania | 28.7% | 71 | 176 | 247 |
| Venezuela | 9.5% | 23 | 219 | 242 |
| Ukraine | 82.4% | 187 | 40 | 227 |
| China | 72.4% | 139 | 53 | 192 |
| Iraq | 86.6% | 116 | 18 | 134 |
| Nepal | 85.6% | 89 | 15 | 104 |
| Belarus | 94.6% | 87 | 5 | 92 |
| Turkey | 10.5% | 8 | 68 | 76 |
| Kazakhstan | 78.9% | 45 | 12 | 57 |
| Vietnam | 67.9% | 36 | 17 | 53 |
| Ecuador | 2.3% | 1 | 43 | 44 |
| Armenia | 78.0% | 32 | 9 | 41 |
| Azerbaijan | 92.1% | 35 | 3 | 38 |
| Uzbekistan | 78.4% | 29 | 8 | 37 |
| Haiti | 0.0% | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| Brazil | 4.2% | 1 | 23 | 24 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 70.8% | 17 | 7 | 24 |
| Unknown Nationality | 22.7% | 5 | 17 | 22 |
| Moldavia (Moldova) | 85.0% | 17 | 3 | 20 |
| Philippines | 42.1% | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| Pakistan | 66.7% | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| Syria | 100.0% | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Cuba | 21.4% | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 41.7% | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Jamaica | 9.1% | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Fiji | 60.0% | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| Israel | 100.0% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Bulgaria | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Libya | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Sri Lanka | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Egypt | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Nigeria | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Chile | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Mongolia | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Thailand | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |