Immigration judge Dean A. Levay

EOIR records Dean A. Levay as a former immigration judge, code DAL, with 4,070 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2006 and 75.0% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

4,070
Proceedings completed, FY2002–2006: 43.3% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 75.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2002–2005: 96 granted of 128 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2002 to 2005, this judge granted 96 asylum applications and denied 32 — 75.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 222 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Dean A. Levay, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2006	1	0	0	0	0
FY2005	733	436	5	0	24
FY2004	2,013	1,098	28	3	97
FY2003	733	151	31	14	59
FY2002	590	78	32	15	42
FY2001	465	131	25	6	59
FY2000	622	212	13	10	94
FY1999	747	217	15	19	138
FY1998	650	133	9	38	152
FY1997	1,441	79	2	14	82

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 Dean A. Levay completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	6,768
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	5,076
Florence, AZ (FLO)	48
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	19
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	4
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	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