Immigration judge Matthew Gordon
EOIR records Matthew Gordon as a serving immigration judge, code MWG, with 3,338 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 296 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 134 were granted (45.3%) and 162 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 35.3% at the Sterling, VA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 3,338
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 28.3% decided in absentia
- 1,048
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 45.3%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 134 granted of 296 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 Sterling, VA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 35.3% granted
- 2,811 of 7,969 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 134 asylum applications and denied 162 — 45.3% of those decided. A further 1,238 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Matthew Gordon completed 932 proceedings in FY2025, against 5 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
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 932 | 310 | 67 | 103 | 309 |
| FY2024 | 1,581 | 438 | 26 | 34 | 629 |
| FY2023 | 752 | 195 | 24 | 18 | 269 |
| FY2022 | 70 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 31 |
| FY2021 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 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