Immigration judge

Seppanen, Christopher R.

Cleveland Immigration Court

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These figures are not current

Captured September 18, 2026 — about 0 months ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

Lifetime grant rate

19.1%

304 decisions

Grant rate, last 12 months on record

Not reported

Fewer than 25 decisions on record. A percentage drawn from so few decisions would be misleading, so it is withheld rather than shown.

15.4%

Court lifetime average

Grant-rate trend

Each point is the grant rate across the 12 months ending in that month — a rolling window, not a single month on its own. A point appears only where those 12 months hold at least 25 decisions. A rolling window covers a much shorter span than the lifetime figure above, so the two can differ materially; both are correct measures of different periods.

0%25%50%75%100%Nov 2017Jun 2018Jan 2019Aug 2019Jan 2021Month each 12-month window ends24.6%6.7% — 12 months ending Nov 2017 (30 decisions)11.4% — 12 months ending Dec 2017 (35 decisions)14.3% — 12 months ending Jan 2018 (42 decisions)16.7% — 12 months ending Feb 2018 (48 decisions)16.7% — 12 months ending Mar 2018 (66 decisions)15.4% — 12 months ending Apr 2018 (78 decisions)19.1% — 12 months ending May 2018 (94 decisions)17.8% — 12 months ending Jun 2018 (101 decisions)17.4% — 12 months ending Jul 2018 (115 decisions)17.7% — 12 months ending Aug 2018 (130 decisions)17.8% — 12 months ending Sep 2018 (129 decisions)19.7% — 12 months ending Oct 2018 (132 decisions)17.2% — 12 months ending Nov 2018 (145 decisions)16.8% — 12 months ending Dec 2018 (149 decisions)16.0% — 12 months ending Jan 2019 (144 decisions)14.8% — 12 months ending Feb 2019 (149 decisions)17.2% — 12 months ending Mar 2019 (157 decisions)20.2% — 12 months ending Apr 2019 (163 decisions)18.7% — 12 months ending May 2019 (155 decisions)18.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2019 (161 decisions)20.4% — 12 months ending Jul 2019 (157 decisions)19.6% — 12 months ending Aug 2019 (153 decisions)20.3% — 12 months ending Sep 2019 (148 decisions)19.1% — 12 months ending Oct 2019 (141 decisions)21.1% — 12 months ending Nov 2019 (123 decisions)20.9% — 12 months ending Feb 2020 (115 decisions)24.6% — 12 months ending Jan 2021 (118 decisions)

The line is broken where this record has no decisions for several months. It is left open rather than joined, because joining it would imply decisions that were never recorded.

7 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.

Same judge name at other courts

This record covers one court only. The same judge name also appears at the courts below, with separate statistics.

Monthly decisions

Showing the most recent 24 months on record. Months with no decisions are not listed.

Decisions and grant rate by month for this judge
MonthDecisionsGrant rate
January 20215Not reported
February 20201Not reported
November 20191Not reported
October 20193Not reported
September 20196Not reported
August 201912Not reported
July 201911Not reported
June 201914Not reported
May 20199Not reported
April 201919Not reported
March 20192630.8%
February 201911Not reported
January 20192Not reported
December 20189Not reported
November 201819Not reported
October 201810Not reported
September 201811Not reported
August 201816Not reported
July 201815Not reported
June 20188Not reported
May 201817Not reported
April 201813Not reported
March 201818Not reported
February 20186Not reported

Source and method

These figures come from case data released by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act, published by the Deportation Data Project. Imigrar did not produce or estimate them.

Captured on September 18, 2026, about 0 months ago, so it is out of date. The record covers decisions from October 1997 through July 2026; nothing filed or decided after July 2026 appears here.

Grant rates are historical aggregates. They describe decisions already made. They do not predict the outcome of any individual case, and no figure on this page should be read as a forecast of what will happen in yours.

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