Immigration judge Jose Rivera
EOIR records Jose Rivera as a serving immigration judge, code JRA, with 9,048 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 14.0% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 9,048
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 12.7% decided in absentia
- 11,455
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 14.0%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 121 granted of 865 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 121 asylum applications and denied 744 — 14.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 2,162 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 | 3,196 | 8 | 229 |
| FY2024 | 2,019 | 12 | 84 |
| FY2023 | 1,936 | 38 | 200 |
| FY2022 | 1,391 | 60 | 196 |
| FY2021 | 506 | 3 | 35 |
| FY2020 | 20 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 8 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 23 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 18 | 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