Immigration judge Eric J. Tijerina
EOIR records Eric J. Tijerina as a serving immigration judge, code EJT, with 12,338 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 30.5% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 12,338
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 23.5% decided in absentia
- 2,662
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 30.5%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 191 granted of 626 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 191 asylum applications and denied 435 — 30.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,349 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3,522 | 11 | 156 |
| FY2024 | 3,375 | 50 | 124 |
| FY2023 | 2,806 | 68 | 70 |
| FY2022 | 1,859 | 31 | 15 |
| FY2021 | 776 | 31 | 70 |
| FY2020 | 2,534 | 44 | 98 |
| FY2019 | 2,325 | 23 | 28 |
| FY2018 | 214 | 2 | 3 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 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