Immigration judge Edward Lee

EOIR records Edward Lee as a former immigration judge, code EDL, with 2,031 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2024 and 44.4% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,031
Proceedings completed, FY2020–2024: 5.7% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 44.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2020–2023: 130 granted of 293 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2020 to 2023, this judge granted 130 asylum applications and denied 163 — 44.4% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 845 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Edward Lee, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2024	88	0	0	0	0
FY2023	871	94	46	34	349
FY2022	727	10	61	45	380
FY2021	314	12	18	77	107
FY2020	31	0	5	7	9
FY2019	7	4	0	0	1
FY2018	11	1	0	0	1
FY2017	13	0	0	0	3
FY2016	15	1	0	0	8
FY2015	17	2	0	0	8

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 Edward Lee completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	2,168
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	11
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	6
Seattle, WA (SEA)	3
Chicago, IL (CHI)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Houston, TX (HOU)	1
Imperial, CA (IMP)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	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