Immigration judge Bobbie C. Masters
EOIR records Bobbie C. Masters as a serving immigration judge, code BCM, with 4,147 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 419 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2022–2025, 78 were granted (18.6%) and 341 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 35.3% at the Sterling, VA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 4,147
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 17.3% decided in absentia
- 181
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 18.6%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2022–2025
- 78 granted of 419 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 Sterling, VA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 35.3% granted
- 2,810 of 7,968 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 78 asylum applications and denied 341 — 18.6% of those decided. A further 575 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Bobbie C. Masters completed 1,297 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
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,297 | 456 | 38 | 216 | 278 |
| FY2024 | 1,686 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 36 |
| FY2023 | 575 | 74 | 22 | 40 | 209 |
| FY2022 | 584 | 170 | 15 | 85 | 50 |
| FY2021 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 2 | 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
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