Immigration judge Brigitte Laforest
EOIR records Brigitte Laforest as a serving immigration judge, code BLF, with 3,930 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 53.3% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 3,930
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 24.9% decided in absentia
- 449
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 53.3%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 335 granted of 628 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 335 asylum applications and denied 293 — 53.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 666 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 608 | 27 | 49 |
| FY2024 | 1,445 | 106 | 60 |
| FY2023 | 917 | 120 | 73 |
| FY2022 | 828 | 67 | 105 |
| FY2021 | 132 | 15 | 6 |
| FY2020 | 604 | 162 | 94 |
| FY2019 | 920 | 291 | 181 |
| FY2018 | 838 | 287 | 91 |
| FY2017 | 650 | 186 | 23 |
| FY2016 | 785 | 261 | 17 |
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