Immigration judge Thomas Janas

EOIR records Thomas Janas as a serving immigration judge, code TWJ, with 2,263 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2019 and 16.1% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,263
Proceedings completed, FY2015–2019: 11.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 16.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2015–2019: 23 granted of 143 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2015 to 2019, this judge granted 23 asylum applications and denied 120 — 16.1% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 309 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Thomas Janas, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2019	3	0	0	1	1
FY2018	10	0	0	0	1
FY2017	544	60	6	25	70
FY2016	785	88	9	50	120
FY2015	921	104	8	44	117
FY2014	894	69	12	54	82
FY2013	841	48	12	54	68
FY2012	1,657	61	9	60	82
FY2011	1,965	105	24	84	61
FY2010	2,139	124	17	98	76

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 Thomas Janas completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	11,116
Annandale, VA (WAS)	8
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	7
Detroit, MI (DET)	6
Chicago, IL (CHI)	5
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	5
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	3
Omaha, NE (OMA)	3
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	3
Denver, CO (DEN)	2
El Paso, TX (ELP)	2
Memphis, TN (MEM)	2
Newark, NJ (NEW)	2
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	2
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	1
El Paso, TX (EPD)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	1
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	1
Seattle, WA (SEA)	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