Immigration judge Cory M. Picton

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Cory M. Picton
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Cory M. Picton as a serving immigration judge, code CMP, with 1,790 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2021. Of the 595 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2018–2021, 304 were granted (51.1%) and 291 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 62.2% at the San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 31.2% across every immigration court in 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

1,790
Proceedings completed, FY2017–2021: 17.9% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 51.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2018–2021: 304 granted of 595 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2018–2021)

Every immigration court in the country: 31.2% granted; 63,409 of 203,431 asylum applications decided
The San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 62.2% granted; 10,385 of 16,707 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 4 fiscal years from 2018 to 2021, this judge granted 304 asylum applications and denied 291 — 51.1% of those decided. A further 340 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Cory M. Picton completed 193 proceedings in FY2021, against 5 in FY2012

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 Cory M. Picton completed 193 proceedings in FY2021, against 5 in FY2012. 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 granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2021	193	0	28	27	40
FY2020	476	73	92	91	89
FY2019	742	156	156	116	128
FY2018	348	90	28	57	77
FY2017	31	1	0	0	6
FY2016	28	1	0	0	12
FY2015	21	0	0	0	6
FY2014	14	2	0	1	3
FY2013	10	2	0	0	3
FY2012	5	0	0	0	1

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 Cory M. Picton completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	1,748
Florence, AZ (FLO)	41
Memphis, TN (MEM)	35
Seattle, WA (SEA)	10
San Diego, CA (SND)	8
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	5
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	4
Houston, TX (HOU)	3
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	3
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	3
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	2
Conroe, TX (CIC)	2
New York, NY (NYC)	2
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	1
Hartford, CT (HAR)	1
Houston, TX (HGP)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Jena, LA (JNA)	1
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	1
Newark, NJ (NEW)	1
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Otero, NM (OTO)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	1
Annandale, VA (WAS)	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