Immigration judge Brian H. Simpson

EOIR records Brian H. Simpson as a serving immigration judge, code BHS, with 1,602 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2009 and 22.0% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

1,602
Proceedings completed, FY2005–2009: 14.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 22.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2005–2009: 70 granted of 318 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2005 to 2009, this judge granted 70 asylum applications and denied 248 — 22.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 516 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Brian H. Simpson, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2009	62	2	10	16	17
FY2008	199	25	5	29	44
FY2007	377	47	12	49	135
FY2006	465	85	27	70	139
FY2005	499	72	16	84	181
FY2004	722	122	36	122	341
FY2003	691	114	37	151	321
FY2002	389	82	24	64	172
FY2001	372	89	23	40	131
FY2000	489	91	15	85	180

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 Brian H. Simpson completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	17,055
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	12

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