Immigration judge Michelle Araneta

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Michelle Araneta
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Michelle Araneta as a serving immigration judge, code MCA, with 8,948 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 225 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 46 were granted (20.4%) and 179 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 20.5% at the Miami, FL court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

8,948
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 14.3% decided in absentia; 11,155
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 20.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 46 granted of 225 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 Miami, FL court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 20.5% granted; 2,315 of 11,305 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 46 asylum applications and denied 179 — 20.4% of those decided. A further 2,315 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Michelle Araneta completed 3,053 proceedings in FY2025, against 11 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

Immigration judge Michelle Araneta completed 3,053 proceedings in FY2025, against 11 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.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	3,053	454	12	102	514
FY2024	2,438	362	14	18	911
FY2023	1,720	345	8	26	555
FY2022	1,212	109	10	5	264
FY2021	525	6	2	28	71
FY2020	613	223	14	156	95
FY2019	496	288	7	70	66
FY2018	17	6	0	0	2
FY2017	31	10	0	1	7
FY2016	11	0	0	0	6

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 Michelle Araneta completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Miami, FL (MIA)	13,401
Miami, FL (KRO)	54
Orlando, FL (ORL)	18
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	9
Houston, TX (HOU)	8
Houston, TX (HSG)	6
Florence, AZ (FLO)	5
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	5
Imperial, CA (IMP)	4
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	4
Detroit, MI (DET)	3
El Paso, TX (EPD)	3
Houston, TX (HGP)	3
Laredo, TX (LRO)	3
Newark, NJ (NEW)	3
New York, NY (NYC)	3
Tucson, AZ (TUC)	3
Aurora, CO (AUR)	2
Dallas, TX (DAL)	2
Jena, LA (JNA)	2
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	2
New York, NY (NYV)	2
Omaha, NE (OMA)	2
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	2
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	2
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	2
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	1
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	1
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Memphis, TN (MEM)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
New York, NY (NYB)	1
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	1
Sterling, VA (STE)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	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