Immigration judge Chris A. Brisack

EOIR records Chris A. Brisack as a serving immigration judge, code CBA, with 5,304 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 5.0% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

5,304
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 0.0% decided in absentia; 259
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 5.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 11 granted of 218 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 11 asylum applications and denied 207 — 5.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 334 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Chris A. Brisack, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,073	0	1	37	60
FY2024	888	0	0	62	55
FY2023	1,539	0	0	56	87
FY2022	1,226	0	7	36	85
FY2021	578	0	3	16	47
FY2020	1,020	0	25	47	86
FY2019	2,848	40	16	73	151
FY2018	2,680	476	11	106	277
FY2017	2,478	695	10	105	70
FY2016	2,161	692	1	69	52

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 Chris A. Brisack completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Houston, TX (HOU)	21,007
Conroe, TX (CIC)	11,044
Houston, TX (HSG)	5,247
Houston, TX (HGP)	2,324
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	119
Dallas, TX (DAL)	38
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	37
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	33
El Paso, TX (ELP)	10
Chicago, IL (CHI)	8
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	7
Detroit, MI (DET)	3
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	3
Seattle, WA (SEA)	3
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	2
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	2
New York, NY (NYC)	2
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	2
Omaha, NE (OMA)	2
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	2
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	2
San Diego, CA (SND)	2
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	1
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	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