Immigration judge Bruce W. Solow

EOIR records Bruce W. Solow as a serving immigration judge, code BWS, with 2,617 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2012 and 35.3% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,617
Proceedings completed, FY2008–2012: 19.9% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 35.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2008–2012: 213 granted of 603 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2008 to 2012, this judge granted 213 asylum applications and denied 390 — 35.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 698 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Bruce W. Solow, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2012	128	11	13	13	25
FY2011	472	84	40	40	102
FY2010	751	141	43	58	286
FY2009	541	116	47	98	135
FY2008	725	170	70	181	150
FY2007	1,175	375	71	160	326
FY2006	1,099	248	59	232	244
FY2005	1,030	233	60	368	164
FY2004	978	182	87	311	162
FY2003	850	190	55	202	218

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 Bruce W. Solow completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Miami, FL (MIA)	25,473
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	149
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	149
Miami, FL (KRO)	23
New York, NY (NYC)	20
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	19
Detroit, MI (DET)	13
Omaha, NE (OMA)	12
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	10
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	9
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	8
Aurora, CO (AUR)	2
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
Orlando, FL (ORL)	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