Immigration judge Scott D. Criss
EOIR records Scott D. Criss as a serving immigration judge, code SC2, with 17,796 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 427 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 75 were granted (17.6%) and 352 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 11.8% at the Charlotte, NC court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 17,796
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 49.8% decided in absentia
- 16,577
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 17.6%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 75 granted of 427 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 37.3% granted
- 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
- The Charlotte, NC court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 11.8% granted
- 717 of 6,077 asylum applications decided
For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 75 asylum applications and denied 352 — 17.6% of those decided. A further 2,409 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Scott D. Criss completed 5,834 proceedings in FY2025, against 9 in FY2016
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
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 5,834 | 2,712 | 3 | 100 | 739 |
| FY2024 | 4,850 | 2,218 | 23 | 68 | 939 |
| FY2023 | 4,844 | 3,269 | 30 | 110 | 555 |
| FY2022 | 1,822 | 642 | 6 | 46 | 100 |
| FY2021 | 446 | 23 | 13 | 28 | 76 |
| FY2020 | 1,323 | 28 | 39 | 112 | 54 |
| FY2019 | 1,496 | 19 | 25 | 260 | 81 |
| FY2018 | 1,631 | 483 | 12 | 193 | 156 |
| FY2017 | 520 | 136 | 16 | 28 | 68 |
| FY2016 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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