Immigration judge Eugene Pugliese

EOIR records Eugene Pugliese as a serving immigration judge, code EP, with 2,259 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2013 and 32.4% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,259
Proceedings completed, FY2009–2013: 18.6% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 32.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2009–2011: 73 granted of 225 decided

Over the 3 fiscal years from 2009 to 2011, this judge granted 73 asylum applications and denied 152 — 32.4% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 198 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 Pugliese, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2013	1	0	0	0	0
FY2012	22	0	0	0	3
FY2011	571	71	22	27	48
FY2010	768	203	32	42	61
FY2009	897	146	19	83	86
FY2008	799	99	34	64	79
FY2007	804	134	55	70	102
FY2006	997	321	36	73	96
FY2005	1,036	372	15	124	79
FY2004	830	155	13	112	96

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 Pugliese completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Newark, NJ (NEW)	12,504
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	80
Boston, MA (BOS)	17
Orlando, FL (ORL)	14
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	3
Annandale, VA (WAS)	3

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