Immigration judge Craig A. Defoe
EOIR records Craig A. Defoe as a serving immigration judge, code CDE, with 8,220 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 34.6% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 8,220
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 25.9% decided in absentia
- 5,184
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 34.6%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 363 granted of 1,048 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 363 asylum applications and denied 685 — 34.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,566 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 2,832 | 60 | 239 |
| FY2024 | 2,392 | 62 | 121 |
| FY2023 | 1,470 | 100 | 180 |
| FY2022 | 1,159 | 114 | 120 |
| FY2021 | 367 | 27 | 25 |
| FY2020 | 711 | 43 | 179 |
| FY2019 | 486 | 50 | 99 |
| FY2018 | 38 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 2 | 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
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