Immigration judge Erin Gover

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Erin Gover
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Erin Gover as a serving immigration judge, code ERG, with 3,039 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 596 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2022–2025, 352 were granted (59.1%) and 244 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

3,039
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 7.8% decided in absentia; 1,368
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 59.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2022–2025: 352 granted of 596 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2022–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 130,518 of 349,694 asylum applications decided
The Boston, MA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 46.4% granted; 5,887 of 12,701 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 2022 to 2025, this judge granted 352 asylum applications and denied 244 — 59.1% of those decided. A further 585 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Erin Gover completed 2,317 proceedings in FY2025, against 55 in FY2016

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 Erin Gover completed 2,317 proceedings in FY2025, against 55 in FY2016. 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
FY2025	2,317	209	302	196	368
FY2024	526	10	47	46	139
FY2023	121	14	3	0	47
FY2022	63	3	0	2	29
FY2021	12	1	0	0	2
FY2020	4	1	0	1	1
FY2019	2	1	0	0	0
FY2018	7	0	0	0	2
FY2017	19	0	0	0	6
FY2016	55	2	0	0	25

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 Erin Gover completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Boston, MA (BOS)	4,125
Annandale, VA (ANN)	67
Chelmsford, MA (CHE)	12
Jena, LA (JNA)	7
Chelmsford, MA (LOW)	7
Miami, FL (MIA)	7
Hartford, CT (HAR)	6
Newark, NJ (NEW)	6
New York, NY (NYV)	6
New York, NY (NYB)	5
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	4
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	4
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	3
New York, NY (NYC)	3
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	2
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	2
Detroit, MI (DET)	2
Houston, TX (HOU)	2
Imperial, CA (IMP)	2
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	2
Orlando, FL (ORL)	2
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	2
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	2
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	2
Aurora, CO (AUR)	1
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	1
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Chicago, IL (CHI)	1
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Indianapolis, IN (INP)	1
Laredo, TX (LRO)	1
Memphis, TN (MEM)	1
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
San Diego, CA (SND)	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