Immigration judge Jesse B. Christensen

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Jesse B. Christensen
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
License: https://www.usa.gov/government-copyright

EOIR records Jesse B. Christensen as a serving immigration judge, code JBC, with 4,759 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 1,730 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 257 were granted (14.9%) and 1,473 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

4,759
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 17.6% decided in absentia; 8
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 14.9%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 257 granted of 1,730 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
The New York, NY court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 73.3% granted; 19,854 of 27,104 asylum applications decided

For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 257 asylum applications and denied 1,473 — 14.9% of those decided. A further 1,046 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Jesse B. Christensen completed 962 proceedings in FY2025, against 925 in FY2016

Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year

The figures behind this chart

Immigration judge Jesse B. Christensen completed 962 proceedings in FY2025, against 925 in FY2016. Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	962	161	51	460	248
FY2024	1,378	350	72	403	253
FY2023	1,015	146	46	360	238
FY2022	1,228	177	68	236	235
FY2021	176	2	20	14	72
FY2020	636	62	104	97	188
FY2019	885	119	152	167	265
FY2018	1,070	141	177	273	281
FY2017	1,197	208	95	122	202
FY2016	925	130	118	67	276

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 Jesse B. Christensen completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
New York, NY (NYC)	7,288
New York, NY (NYB)	4,842
New York, NY (NYV)	374
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	194
Conroe, TX (CIC)	97
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	71
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	46
Otero, NM (OTO)	45
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	32
San Diego, CA (SND)	27
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	26
Newark, NJ (NEW)	23
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	20
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	12
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	8
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	8
Houston, TX (HOU)	7
Chicago, IL (CHI)	6
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	6
Imperial, CA (IMP)	4
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	4
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	4
Annandale, VA (WAS)	4
Florence, AZ (FLO)	3
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	3
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2
El Paso, TX (EPD)	2
Houston, TX (HSG)	2
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	2
Orlando, FL (ORL)	2
West Valley, UT (SLC)	2
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	1
Atlanta, GA (ATD)	1
Aurora, CO (AUR)	1
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Hartford, CT (HAR)	1
Miami, FL (KRO)	1
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	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