Immigration judge Robert Yeargin

EOIR records Robert Yeargin as a serving immigration judge, code RY, with 1,620 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2015 and 45.8% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

1,620
Proceedings completed, FY2011–2015: 12.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 45.8%
Asylum grant rate, FY2011–2014: 130 granted of 284 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2011 to 2014, this judge granted 130 asylum applications and denied 154 — 45.8% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 298 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Robert Yeargin, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2015	2	0	0	0	0
FY2014	367	55	44	25	61
FY2013	390	28	26	29	77
FY2012	406	30	24	46	76
FY2011	455	85	36	54	84
FY2010	376	76	38	27	71
FY2009	344	46	25	36	89
FY2008	443	63	45	68	102
FY2007	451	40	54	93	151
FY2006	518	92	35	79	173

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 Robert Yeargin completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	5,476
Detroit, MI (DET)	342
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	51
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	25
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	4
Chicago, IL (CHI)	3
San Diego, CA (SND)	3
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	2
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	1
Dallas, TX (DAL)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	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 · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026