Immigration judge Thomas M. Ragno

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Thomas M. Ragno
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Thomas M. Ragno as a former immigration judge, code TMR, with 2,452 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2006. Of the 181 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2002–2006, 23 were granted (12.7%) and 158 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 39.1% across every immigration court in 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,452
Proceedings completed, FY2002–2006: 45.5% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 12.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2002–2006: 23 granted of 181 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2002–2006)

Every immigration court in the country: 39.1% granted; 62,401 of 159,592 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 2002 to 2006, this judge granted 23 asylum applications and denied 158 — 12.7% of those decided. A further 241 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Thomas M. Ragno completed 334 proceedings in FY2006, against 720 in FY1997

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

Immigration judge Thomas M. Ragno completed 334 proceedings in FY2006, against 720 in FY1997. 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.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2006	334	241	1	5	22
FY2005	490	230	12	33	58
FY2004	16	1	3	4	3
FY2003	818	331	4	43	69
FY2002	794	313	3	73	89
FY2001	784	305	11	68	132
FY2000	678	208	24	42	80
FY1999	649	147	3	39	69
FY1998	642	124	5	58	126
FY1997	720	196	1	70	166

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 M. Ragno completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Boston, MA (BOS)	9,914
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	4,545
Hartford, CT (HAR)	732
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	278
New York, NY (NYC)	10
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	2
Newark, NJ (NEW)	2

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