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Immigration judge Paul W. Schmidt

EOIR records Paul W. Schmidt as a serving immigration judge, code PWS, with 20 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2022.

Cases, decisions and backlog

20
Proceedings completed, FY2018–2022
0.0% decided in absentia
0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026
Not ranked
Asylum grant rate
only 0 decided, under the 100 a rate needs here

This judge decided 0 asylum applications in the five fiscal years to 2022 — 0 granted and 0 denied. That is below the 100 this site needs before it will publish a rate, because at a hundred decisions the interval around one is already about nine points wide. A further 6 ended neither way.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Paul W. Schmidt completed 8 proceedings in FY2022, against 1,170 in FY2013

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 Paul W. Schmidt completed 8 proceedings in FY2022, against 1,170 in FY2013. 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 yearCompletedIn absentiaAsylum grantedAsylum deniedNeither
FY202280002
FY202110001
FY202000000
FY201900000
FY2018110003
FY20177400032
FY20161,2273001049245
FY20159661544515127
FY20141,1881544913142
FY20131,1701186015148

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

Data retrieved

Immigration judge Paul W. Schmidt: 20 completed (to FY2022) — American Factbook