Immigration judge Michael Tripi

EOIR records Michael Tripi as a serving immigration judge, code MLT, with 5,770 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 25.8% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

5,770
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 31.8% decided in absentia; 5,239
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 25.8%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 108 granted of 419 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 108 asylum applications and denied 311 — 25.8% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,539 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Michael Tripi, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,710	593	17	145	357
FY2024	1,291	441	19	46	290
FY2023	1,157	393	39	43	240
FY2022	1,012	328	28	25	337
FY2021	600	80	5	52	315
FY2020	44	4	2	14	7
FY2019	1	0	0	0	1
FY2018	1	0	0	0	0
FY2017	2	0	0	0	1
FY2016	50	0	0	0	26

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 Michael Tripi completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	7,583
Orlando, FL (ORL)	15
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	14
Chicago, IL (CHI)	7
Miami, FL (MIA)	7
New York, NY (NYC)	7
Annandale, VA (ANN)	6
Houston, TX (HSG)	6
Chelmsford, MA (CHE)	5
Houston, TX (HOU)	5
New York, NY (NYV)	5
Newark, NJ (NEW)	4
New York, NY (NYB)	4
Omaha, NE (OMA)	4
Sterling, VA (STE)	4
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	3
Concord, CA (CCC)	3
Dallas, TX (DAL)	3
Detroit, MI (DET)	3
El Paso, TX (ELP)	3
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	3
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	2
Denver, CO (DEN)	2
El Paso, TX (EPD)	2
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	2
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	2
San Diego, CA (SND)	2
Annandale, VA (WAS)	2
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	2
Boston, MA (BOS)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Florence, AZ (FLO)	1
Hartford, CT (HAR)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Memphis, TN (MEM)	1
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Otero, NM (OTO)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
West Valley, UT (SLC)	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