Immigration judge Richard Cato
EOIR records Richard Cato as a serving immigration judge, code RDC, with 6,539 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 34.8% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 6,539
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 14.6% decided in absentia
- 12,491
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 34.8%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 109 granted of 313 decided
Over the 4 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 109 asylum applications and denied 204 — 34.8% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,373 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3,492 | 35 | 94 |
| FY2024 | 1,978 | 10 | 31 |
| FY2023 | 1,010 | 64 | 78 |
| FY2022 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 18 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 11 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 34 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2016 | 78 | 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