Immigration judge Heather Libeu

EOIR records Heather Libeu as a serving immigration judge, code HRL, with 2,457 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 17.6% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,457
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 29.8% decided in absentia; 1,024
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 17.6%
Asylum grant rate, FY2023–2025: 57 granted of 324 decided

Over the 3 fiscal years from 2023 to 2025, this judge granted 57 asylum applications and denied 267 — 17.6% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 472 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Heather Libeu, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,293	464	26	192	217
FY2024	1,039	253	22	73	214
FY2023	65	15	9	2	9
FY2022	60	0	0	0	32
FY2021	0	0	0	0	0
FY2020	0	0	0	0	0
FY2019	0	0	0	0	0
FY2018	0	0	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0	0
FY2016	0	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 Heather Libeu completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	3,586
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	35
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	33
Van Nuys, CA (VNS)	11
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	10
San Diego, CA (SND)	6
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	5
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	5
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	5
New York, NY (NYC)	4
Laredo, TX (LRO)	3
Miami, FL (MIA)	3
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	2
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	2
Seattle, WA (SEA)	2
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	1
Chicago, IL (CHI)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Houston, TX (HGP)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
New York, NY (NYB)	1
Orlando, FL (ORL)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	1
Tucson, AZ (TUC)	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