Lancaster, CA immigration court

The Executive Office for Immigration Review records 2 judges currently assigned to this court, of 96 assigned at any time. It sits in EOIR’s Western region and EOIR marks it no longer active. EOIR’s own code for it is LAN.

American Factbook Research

What these figures are, and what they are not

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Across EOIR’s whole file, 1,947,620 asylum applications ended neither granted nor denied — abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred, not adjudicated — against 1,370,866 granted or denied. This page states that third number beside the rate, because a rate that hides it describes a third of the record.

Pending is a snapshot and not a year’s work. It counts proceedings with no completion date as of the release named below, put in the fiscal year EOIR recorded them. It moves every month, for every past year. And the figures for what a court recorded and what it completed are two different populations in the same row: a proceeding recorded in 2019 and completed in 2024 is in both years and is one proceeding.

And an assignment is not a posting. A judge is assigned to a median of three courts at once and as many as 72, and the largest rosters here belong to detention courts whose cases are heard substantially by judges sitting elsewhere. The roster below is the assignments EOIR publishes and says nothing about where any judge is on any day.

Cases, decisions and backlog

0
Proceedings completed in FY2025: 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: Not ranked
Asylum grant rate, FY2025–2025: no asylum applications decided here

2 more columns on a wider screen

What the Lancaster immigration court recorded, completed and decided, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Recorded	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2006	1	5	0	0	0	0

Recorded and completed are different populations in the same row and must not be added. Complete fiscal years only: FY2026 had not ended when EOIR generated this release, and a part year beside whole ones reads as a collapse.

What EOIR records

2
Judges currently assigned: 2.1% of all assignments; 96
Judges assigned at any time: 94 no longer assigned

The judges EOIR assigns here

Names as EOIR records them, surname first. A name links to what EOIR records that judge deciding; a judge with no completed proceeding has no page and no link. 94 further judges have been assigned to this court and are not listed, because EOIR no longer records the assignment.

Other courts

Adelanto, CA
ADL · 129 judges currently assigned
Concord, CA
CCC · 28 judges currently assigned
Imperial, CA
IMP · 126 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
WLA · 179 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
LOS · 120 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
NLA · 11 judges currently assigned
Los Angeles, CA
LAD · 1 judge currently assigned
Otay Mesa, CA
OTM · 45 judges currently assigned
Sacramento, CA
SMO · 22 judges currently assigned
San Diego, CA
SND · 71 judges currently assigned
San Francisco, CA
SFR · 1 judge currently assigned
San Pedro, CA
SPD · 4 judges currently assigned
Santa Ana, CA
SNC · 46 judges currently assigned
Van Nuys, CA
VNS · 15 judges currently assigned

Also: every court by asylum grant rate, by proceedings pending, and the immigration hub.

Sources

EOIR immigration judges and courts — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 21, 2026
EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year · retrieved September 22, 2026

Data retrieved September 21, 2026