Immigration judge William A. Cassidy

EOIR records William A. Cassidy as a serving immigration judge, code WAC, with 4,129 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2021 and 2.3% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

4,129
Proceedings completed, FY2017–2021: 7.5% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 2.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2017–2019: 3 granted of 132 decided

Over the 3 fiscal years from 2017 to 2019, this judge granted 3 asylum applications and denied 129 — 2.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 233 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge William A. Cassidy, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2021	1	0	0	0	1
FY2020	206	194	0	0	0
FY2019	1,438	52	2	45	65
FY2018	1,181	43	1	29	79
FY2017	1,303	20	0	55	88
FY2016	1,490	14	1	34	74
FY2015	1,289	105	1	66	69
FY2014	1,120	33	5	37	51
FY2013	808	137	2	21	87
FY2012	1,030	117	0	7	96

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 William A. Cassidy completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Atlanta, GA (ATD)	23,359
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	23,232
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	19,300
New York, NY (NYC)	2,738
Hartford, CT (HAR)	303
Detroit, MI (DET)	105
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	102
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	76
Conroe, TX (CIC)	39
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	38
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	37
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	33
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	24
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	23
El Paso, TX (EPD)	22
Honolulu, HI (HON)	11
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	5
Dallas, TX (DAL)	4
Boston, MA (BOS)	3
Orlando, FL (ORL)	2
Chicago, IL (CHI)	1
Houston, TX (HOU)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	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 · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026