Immigration judge Christopher A. Santoro

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Christopher A. Santoro
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Christopher A. Santoro as a serving immigration judge, code CAS, with 19 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2022.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

19
Proceedings completed, FY2018–2022: 0.0% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: Not ranked
Asylum grant rate: only 9 decided, under the 100 a rate needs here

This judge decided 9 asylum applications in the five fiscal years to 2022 — 0 granted and 9 denied. That is below the 100 this site needs before it will publish a rate, because at a hundred decisions the interval around one is already about nine points wide. A further 2 ended neither way.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Christopher A. Santoro completed 1 proceedings in FY2022, against 27 in FY2013

Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year

The figures behind this chart

Immigration judge Christopher A. Santoro completed 1 proceedings in FY2022, against 27 in FY2013. Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2022	1	0	0	0
FY2021	0	0	0	0
FY2020	14	0	9	2
FY2019	2	0	0	0
FY2018	2	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0
FY2016	0	0	0	0
FY2015	132	1	0	18
FY2014	2	0	0	0
FY2013	27	0	0	4

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 Christopher A. Santoro completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	130
Annandale, VA (WAS)	46
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	22
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	4
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	2
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	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