Immigration judge O. John Brahos

EOIR records O. John Brahos as a former immigration judge, code OJB, with 3,174 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2010 and 51.8% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

3,174
Proceedings completed, FY2006–2010: 12.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 51.8%
Asylum grant rate, FY2006–2010: 85 granted of 164 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2006 to 2010, this judge granted 85 asylum applications and denied 79 — 51.8% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 202 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge O. John Brahos, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2010	1	0	0	1	0
FY2009	25	5	1	8	5
FY2008	346	8	18	16	30
FY2007	1,344	130	36	29	86
FY2006	1,458	244	30	25	81
FY2005	1,569	191	42	48	124
FY2004	1,438	175	25	64	110
FY2003	1,186	97	24	92	77
FY2002	1,443	245	31	131	117
FY2001	1,516	284	25	99	95

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 O. John Brahos completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Chicago, IL (CHI)	13,557
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	11,925
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	369
Aurora, CO (AUR)	327
Miami, FL (MIA)	43
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	39
Annandale, VA (WAS)	25
Detroit, MI (DET)	20
Boston, MA (BOS)	18
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	8
Miami, FL (KRO)	7
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	6
Omaha, NE (OMA)	6
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	2

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