Immigration judge John C. Barnes

EOIR records John C. Barnes as a serving immigration judge, code JCB, with 3,535 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 23.7% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

3,535
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 7.9% decided in absentia; 1,513
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 23.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 171 granted of 723 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 171 asylum applications and denied 552 — 23.7% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 867 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge John C. Barnes, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	908	6	20	198	100
FY2024	631	12	38	148	203
FY2023	1,022	167	46	69	288
FY2022	720	82	53	88	221
FY2021	254	11	14	49	55
FY2020	15	0	0	2	1
FY2019	3	0	0	0	0
FY2018	4	0	1	1	0
FY2017	3	0	0	0	0
FY2016	5	1	0	0	2

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 John C. Barnes completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Annandale, VA (WAS)	2,719
Annandale, VA (ANN)	1,702
Memphis, TN (MEM)	385
Dallas, TX (DAL)	264
Sterling, VA (STE)	16
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	9
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	6
Houston, TX (HOU)	4
Orlando, FL (ORL)	3
Otero, NM (OTO)	3
Seattle, WA (SEA)	3
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2
Chicago, IL (CHI)	2
El Paso, TX (ELP)	2
Hyattsville, MD (HYA)	2
Conroe, TX (CIC)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Miami, FL (KRO)	1
Newark, NJ (NEW)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	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