Immigration judge Bryan D. Watson

EOIR records Bryan D. Watson as a serving immigration judge, code BDW, with 2,087 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2024 and 27.4% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,087
Proceedings completed, FY2020–2024: 16.8% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 27.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2023: 57 granted of 208 decided

Over the 3 fiscal years from 2021 to 2023, this judge granted 57 asylum applications and denied 151 — 27.4% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 293 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Bryan D. Watson, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2024	171	0	0	0	0
FY2023	854	227	34	72	143
FY2022	850	113	19	45	120
FY2021	203	8	4	34	30
FY2020	9	2	0	0	0
FY2019	3	1	0	0	0
FY2018	4	3	0	0	1
FY2017	11	3	0	0	2
FY2016	26	2	0	0	5
FY2015	10	2	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

Immigration courts where Bryan D. Watson completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2,169
Atlanta, GA (ATD)	26
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	3
New York, NY (NYC)	3
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	1
Florence, AZ (FLO)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	1
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	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