Immigration judge Eugene H. Robinson JR.

EOIR records Eugene H. Robinson JR. as a serving immigration judge, code EHR, with 6,264 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 568 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 250 were granted (44.0%) and 318 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

6,264
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 1.3% decided in absentia; 205
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 44.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 250 granted of 568 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
The Otay Mesa, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 29.1% granted; 368 of 1,266 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 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 250 asylum applications and denied 318 — 44.0% of those decided. A further 282 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Eugene H. Robinson JR., by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,077	0	56	87	60
FY2024	1,006	0	17	71	29
FY2023	1,332	0	14	38	21
FY2022	1,806	38	82	58	108
FY2021	1,043	41	81	64	64
FY2020	808	5	26	50	32
FY2019	2	1	0	1	0
FY2018	1	0	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0	0
FY2016	0	0	0	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

Immigration courts where Eugene H. Robinson JR. completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	4,952
Imperial, CA (IMP)	3,416
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	33
Honolulu, HI (HON)	1
Van Nuys, CA (VNS)	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