Immigration judge Monique Harris
EOIR records Monique Harris as a serving immigration judge, code HAR, with 7,094 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 405 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 117 were granted (28.9%) and 288 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 27.7% at the Orlando, FL court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 7,094
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 11.0% decided in absentia
- 0
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 28.9%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 117 granted of 405 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 Orlando, FL court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 27.7% granted
- 1,543 of 5,569 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 117 asylum applications and denied 288 — 28.9% of those decided. A further 1,806 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Monique Harris completed 1,913 proceedings in FY2025, against 1,313 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 | 1,913 | 119 | 10 | 64 | 459 |
| FY2024 | 2,271 | 110 | 26 | 65 | 696 |
| FY2023 | 1,454 | 338 | 36 | 68 | 313 |
| FY2022 | 832 | 142 | 14 | 23 | 202 |
| FY2021 | 624 | 72 | 31 | 68 | 136 |
| FY2020 | 602 | 275 | 25 | 73 | 103 |
| FY2019 | 967 | 298 | 16 | 242 | 224 |
| FY2018 | 1,591 | 579 | 17 | 537 | 333 |
| FY2017 | 1,832 | 395 | 15 | 317 | 237 |
| FY2016 | 1,313 | 410 | 17 | 434 | 96 |
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