The federal agency responsible for processing and adjudicating immigrants cases, including claims of asylum-seekers, completed the second-most cases ever in fiscal 2019 but still has nearly 1 million cases pending in court.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is located within the Justice Department, said Thursday it completed 275,000 cases between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30. That number is the second-highest since the office was stood up in 1983 and approximately 80,000 more cases than were decided in fiscal 2018.