Immigration judge Andrew Stawar

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Andrew Stawar
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Andrew Stawar as a serving immigration judge, code AWS, with 2,832 proceedings completed in FY2026, which is not over — more than in the finished fiscal years before it. Of the 555 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2026, 4 were granted (0.7%) and 551 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,832
Proceedings completed, FY2026 so far: 30.2% decided in absentia; 2,450
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 0.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2026: 4 granted of 555 decided

In FY2026 alone, this judge granted 4 asylum applications and denied 551 — 0.7% of those decided. A further 550 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Andrew Stawar completed 2,066 proceedings in FY2025, against 1 in FY2016

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 Andrew Stawar completed 2,066 proceedings in FY2025, against 1 in FY2016. 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
FY2025	2,066	524	19	215	355
FY2024	37	10	0	0	4
FY2023	26	12	0	0	8
FY2022	24	7	0	0	6
FY2021	4	0	0	0	1
FY2020	1	1	0	0	1
FY2019	0	0	0	0	0
FY2018	0	0	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0	0
FY2016	1	0	0	0	0

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 Andrew Stawar completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Houston, TX (HSG)	4,390
Jena, LA (JNA)	489
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	81
El Paso, TX (ELP)	8
Houston, TX (HGP)	5
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	5
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	3
Dallas, TX (DAL)	3
New York, NY (NYC)	2
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	2
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
San Diego, CA (SND)	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