Immigration judge John C. Williams

EOIR records John C. Williams as a serving immigration judge, code JCW, with 2,425 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2012 and 68.1% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,425
Proceedings completed, FY2008–2012: 5.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 68.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2008–2011: 98 granted of 144 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2008 to 2011, this judge granted 98 asylum applications and denied 46 — 68.1% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 117 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge John C. Williams, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2012	3	0	0	0	0
FY2011	137	11	3	2	5
FY2010	515	46	29	13	35
FY2009	726	27	27	22	38
FY2008	1,044	48	39	9	39
FY2007	1,165	50	37	5	65
FY2006	1,454	77	39	12	32
FY2005	1,307	85	25	7	30
FY2004	950	64	34	19	21
FY2003	947	76	39	43	67

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. Williams completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Diego, CA (SND)	33,716
Honolulu, HI (HON)	4,454
Imperial, CA (IMP)	249
Tucson, AZ (TUC)	242
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	143
Florence, AZ (FLO)	102
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	57
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	35
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	34
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	32
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	14
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	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