Immigration judge John Burns
EOIR records John Burns as a serving immigration judge, code JHB, with 5,394 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 2.9% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 5,394
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 30.6% decided in absentia
- 1,418
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 2.9%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 36 granted of 1,222 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 36 asylum applications and denied 1,186 — 2.9% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,476 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 | 2,030 | 2 | 635 |
| FY2024 | 1,632 | 1 | 296 |
| FY2023 | 1,107 | 11 | 148 |
| FY2022 | 596 | 19 | 102 |
| FY2021 | 29 | 3 | 5 |
| FY2020 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 1 | 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
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