Immigration judge Catherine E. Halliday-Roberts

EOIR records Catherine E. Halliday-Roberts as a serving immigration judge, code CHR, with 5,620 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 195 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 72 were granted (36.9%) and 123 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

5,620
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 10.5% decided in absentia; 1,187
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 36.9%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 72 granted of 195 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
The San Diego, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 42.0% granted; 1,260 of 3,001 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 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 72 asylum applications and denied 123 — 36.9% of those decided. A further 1,130 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Catherine E. Halliday-Roberts, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,157	249	17	61	160
FY2024	1,589	133	7	6	157
FY2023	1,557	121	20	29	448
FY2022	995	85	21	17	317
FY2021	322	4	7	10	48
FY2020	792	7	29	47	50
FY2019	587	31	22	82	80
FY2018	569	3	13	74	92
FY2017	194	0	2	14	46
FY2016	79	0	0	0	21

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 Catherine E. Halliday-Roberts completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Diego, CA (SND)	6,521
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	2,070
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	254
Imperial, CA (IMP)	133
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	14
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	9
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	6
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	5
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	5
New York, NY (NYC)	5
El Paso, TX (ELP)	4
Memphis, TN (MEM)	3
Newark, NJ (NEW)	3
Orlando, FL (ORL)	3
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	3
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	2
Concord, CA (CCC)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Honolulu, HI (HON)	1
Miami, FL (MIA)	1
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	1
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	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