Immigration judge Adam Jovanovic

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Adam Jovanovic
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Adam Jovanovic as a serving immigration judge, code AMJ, with 5,889 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 555 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2022–2025, 33 were granted (5.9%) and 522 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 7.6% at the Houston, TX court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.

What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

5,889
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 27.2% decided in absentia; 1,697
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 5.9%
Asylum grant rate, FY2022–2025: 33 granted of 555 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2022–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 130,518 of 349,694 asylum applications decided
The Houston, TX court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 7.6% granted; 746 of 9,863 asylum applications decided

For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2022 to 2025, this judge granted 33 asylum applications and denied 522 — 5.9% of those decided. A further 984 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Adam Jovanovic completed 1,842 proceedings in FY2025, against 0 in FY2016

Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year

The figures behind this chart

Immigration judge Adam Jovanovic completed 1,842 proceedings in FY2025, against 0 in FY2016. Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,842	466	2	230	262
FY2024	2,020	585	9	120	397
FY2023	1,219	358	13	131	262
FY2022	804	194	9	41	63
FY2021	4	0	0	0	0
FY2020	1	0	0	0	0
FY2019	3	0	0	0	1
FY2018	0	0	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0	0
FY2016	0	0	0	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

Immigration courts where Adam Jovanovic completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Houston, TX (HGP)	6,913
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	372
Laredo, TX (LRO)	90
Conroe, TX (CIC)	9
Houston, TX (HSG)	8
Dallas, TX (DAL)	7
Houston, TX (HOU)	5
Miami, FL (MIA)	5
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	5
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	4
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	4
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	4
Orlando, FL (ORL)	4
Chicago, IL (CHI)	3
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	3
San Diego, CA (SND)	3
Newark, NJ (NEW)	2
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	2
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
New York, NY (NYV)	1
Sterling, VA (STE)	1

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 September 1, 2026