Immigration judge Philip A. Barr

EOIR records Philip A. Barr as a serving immigration judge, code PAB, with 2,605 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2024 and 12.9% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,605
Proceedings completed, FY2020–2024: 35.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 12.9%
Asylum grant rate, FY2020–2023: 45 granted of 349 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2020 to 2023, this judge granted 45 asylum applications and denied 304 — 12.9% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 410 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Philip A. Barr, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2024	1	0	0	0	0
FY2023	280	74	18	37	47
FY2022	825	114	11	96	224
FY2021	441	30	14	134	86
FY2020	1,058	698	2	37	53
FY2019	14	0	0	0	6
FY2018	1	1	0	0	0
FY2017	5	2	0	0	0
FY2016	4	0	0	0	0
FY2015	4	1	0	0	0

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 Philip A. Barr completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	2,570
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	26
Denver, CO (DEN)	25
Atlanta, GA (ATD)	20
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	9
New York, NY (NYC)	3
Dallas, TX (DAL)	2
Imperial, CA (IMP)	2
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	2
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	2
Detroit, MI (DET)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	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