Immigration judge James Devitto

EOIR records James Devitto as a serving immigration judge, code JDV, with 5,002 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 60.6% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

5,002
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 8.6% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 60.6%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 126 granted of 208 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 126 asylum applications and denied 82 — 60.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 864 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge James Devitto, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	334	53	0	2	37
FY2024	1,818	131	30	16	177
FY2023	1,615	154	52	31	328
FY2022	882	90	41	24	253
FY2021	353	3	3	9	69
FY2020	730	22	28	118	26
FY2019	513	63	8	92	41
FY2018	494	53	20	121	75
FY2017	739	62	3	17	81
FY2016	1,227	2	3	24	144

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 James Devitto completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	13,504
San Diego, CA (SND)	6,826
Imperial, CA (IMP)	1,382
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	162
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	154
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	27
Jena, LA (JNA)	13
Miami, FL (MIA)	7
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	4
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	4
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	3
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	2
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	1
Chicago, IL (CHI)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Hyattsville, MD (HYA)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	1
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	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 · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026