Immigration judge Benjamin Rosen
EOIR records Benjamin Rosen as a serving immigration judge, code BNR, with 8,026 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 419 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2023–2025, 88 were granted (21.0%) and 331 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 26.6% at the Orlando, FL court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 35.6% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 8,026
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 10.3% decided in absentia
- 13,595
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 21.0%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2023–2025
- 88 granted of 419 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2023–2025)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 35.6% granted
- 103,991 of 292,273 asylum applications decided
- The Orlando, FL court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 26.6% granted
- 1,303 of 4,902 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 3 fiscal years from 2023 to 2025, this judge granted 88 asylum applications and denied 331 — 21.0% of those decided. A further 1,643 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Benjamin Rosen completed 4,608 proceedings in FY2025, against 14 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
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 4,608 | 670 | 27 | 140 | 717 |
| FY2024 | 2,627 | 120 | 23 | 48 | 654 |
| FY2023 | 763 | 35 | 38 | 143 | 271 |
| FY2022 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2019 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| FY2018 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| FY2016 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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