Immigration judge Raphael Choi
EOIR records Raphael Choi as a serving immigration judge, code RC1, with 2,840 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 26.3% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 2,840
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 3.8% decided in absentia
- 884
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 26.3%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 103 granted of 392 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 103 asylum applications and denied 289 — 26.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 372 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,003 | 4 | 84 |
| FY2024 | 564 | 10 | 62 |
| FY2023 | 519 | 22 | 40 |
| FY2022 | 381 | 31 | 41 |
| FY2021 | 373 | 36 | 62 |
| FY2020 | 679 | 55 | 149 |
| FY2019 | 594 | 13 | 99 |
| FY2018 | 381 | 2 | 13 |
| FY2017 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 22 | 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
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