Immigration judge James M. Mccarthy

EOIR records James M. Mccarthy as a serving immigration judge, code JMM, with 4,377 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 49.3% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

4,377
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 22.5% decided in absentia; 1,619
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 49.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 350 granted of 710 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 350 asylum applications and denied 360 — 49.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,136 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge James M. Mccarthy, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,280	360	64	176	189
FY2024	1,320	333	68	106	277
FY2023	998	182	97	43	410
FY2022	675	111	107	33	231
FY2021	104	0	14	2	29
FY2020	613	107	88	167	112
FY2019	966	211	170	298	221
FY2018	717	100	100	202	110
FY2017	125	5	22	21	23
FY2016	23	1	0	0	9

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 M. Mccarthy completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
New York, NY (NYB)	5,745
New York, NY (NYC)	2,175
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	227
New York, NY (NYV)	93
Conroe, TX (CIC)	44
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	34
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	28
Memphis, TN (MEM)	11
Houston, TX (HOU)	10
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	6
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	5
Newark, NJ (NEW)	5
Florence, AZ (FLO)	4
Miami, FL (MIA)	3
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	3
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	3
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	3
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	2
Boston, MA (BOS)	2
Chicago, IL (CHI)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	2
Hartford, CT (HAR)	2
Omaha, NE (OMA)	2
Orlando, FL (ORL)	2
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	2
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	2
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	1
Detroit, MI (DET)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Laredo, TX (LRO)	1
Otero, NM (OTO)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
San Diego, CA (SND)	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