Immigration judge A. Ashley Tabaddor

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge A. Ashley Tabaddor
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records A. Ashley Tabaddor as a serving immigration judge, code AAT, with 3,178 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2021. Of the 294 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2017–2021, 62 were granted (21.1%) and 232 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

3,178
Proceedings completed, FY2017–2021: 17.7% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 21.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2017–2021: 62 granted of 294 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2017–2021)

Every immigration court in the country: 32.1% granted; 75,089 of 233,900 asylum applications decided
The Los Angeles, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 25.4% granted; 3,594 of 14,155 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 2017 to 2021, this judge granted 62 asylum applications and denied 232 — 21.1% of those decided. A further 311 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge A. Ashley Tabaddor completed 99 proceedings in FY2021, against 919 in FY2012

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 A. Ashley Tabaddor completed 99 proceedings in FY2021, against 919 in FY2012. 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
FY2021	99	2	1	11	18
FY2020	234	58	9	20	43
FY2019	580	174	27	62	66
FY2018	806	177	16	50	66
FY2017	1,459	153	9	89	118
FY2016	1,117	108	8	87	147
FY2015	1,282	302	11	32	136
FY2014	976	171	22	85	160
FY2013	1,065	137	34	88	227
FY2012	919	119	33	65	231

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 A. Ashley Tabaddor completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	12,677
Van Nuys, CA (VNS)	190
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	131
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	41
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	33
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	26
Dallas, TX (DAL)	19
Chicago, IL (CHI)	16
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	13
Houston, TX (HOU)	11
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	9
New York, NY (NYC)	8
Annandale, VA (WAS)	8
Houston, TX (HGP)	7
San Diego, CA (SND)	6
El Paso, TX (ELP)	5
Houston, TX (HSG)	3
Miami, FL (MIA)	3
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	3
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	2
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	2
Conroe, TX (CIC)	1
Detroit, MI (DET)	1
El Paso, TX (EPD)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
Portland, OR (POO)	1
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	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