Immigration judge Gary W. Smith

EOIR records Gary W. Smith as a serving immigration judge, code GS, with 401 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2009 and 25.4% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

401
Proceedings completed, FY2005–2009: 16.5% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 25.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2005–2006: 31 granted of 122 decided

Over the 2 fiscal years from 2005 to 2006, this judge granted 31 asylum applications and denied 91 — 25.4% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 149 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Gary W. Smith, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2009	1	0	0	0	0
FY2006	43	6	0	16	11
FY2005	357	60	31	75	138
FY2004	2	1	0	0	1
FY2003	0	0	0	0	0
FY2002	1	0	0	0	1
FY2001	0	0	0	0	0
FY2000	1	0	0	0	0
FY1999	0	0	0	0	0
FY1998	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 Gary W. Smith completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	404
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	2

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