Immigration judge James K. Grim
EOIR records James K. Grim as a serving immigration judge, code JG, with 7,760 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 40.6% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 7,760
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 12.3% decided in absentia
- 0
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 40.6%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 141 granted of 347 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 141 asylum applications and denied 206 — 40.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,952 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,844 | 16 | 30 |
| FY2024 | 2,760 | 36 | 34 |
| FY2023 | 1,468 | 46 | 62 |
| FY2022 | 1,061 | 13 | 33 |
| FY2021 | 627 | 30 | 47 |
| FY2020 | 219 | 0 | 34 |
| FY2019 | 249 | 7 | 36 |
| FY2018 | 625 | 19 | 152 |
| FY2017 | 1,022 | 44 | 208 |
| FY2016 | 957 | 35 | 166 |
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
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