Immigration judge Laura L. Ramirez

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Laura L. Ramirez
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Laura L. Ramirez as a serving immigration judge, code LLR, with 3,393 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2019. Of the 491 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2015–2019, 432 were granted (88.0%) and 59 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

3,393
Proceedings completed, FY2015–2019: 16.2% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 88.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2015–2019: 432 granted of 491 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2015–2019)

Every immigration court in the country: 35.8% granted; 65,910 of 184,010 asylum applications decided
The San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 70.0% granted; 8,332 of 11,898 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 2015 to 2019, this judge granted 432 asylum applications and denied 59 — 88.0% of those decided. A further 611 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Laura L. Ramirez completed 187 proceedings in FY2019, against 494 in FY2010

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 Laura L. Ramirez completed 187 proceedings in FY2019, against 494 in FY2010. 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
FY2019	187	32	36	14	54
FY2018	671	109	101	16	188
FY2017	563	102	52	6	107
FY2016	915	156	141	20	140
FY2015	1,057	149	102	3	122
FY2014	587	81	41	4	129
FY2013	649	88	62	16	104
FY2012	556	69	86	17	93
FY2011	492	82	61	35	71
FY2010	494	95	61	16	77

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 Laura L. Ramirez completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	13,085
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	69
Conroe, TX (CIC)	62
Chicago, IL (CHI)	32
Memphis, TN (MEM)	18
New York, NY (NYV)	16
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	15
El Paso, TX (EPD)	12
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	11
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	11
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	8
San Diego, CA (SND)	6
Florence, AZ (FLO)	5
New York, NY (NYC)	5
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	5
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	3
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	3
Seattle, WA (SEA)	3
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	2
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	2
Houston, TX (HGP)	2
Houston, TX (HOU)	2
Imperial, CA (IMP)	2
Jena, LA (JNA)	2
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	2
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	2
Aurora, CO (AUR)	1
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	1
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	1
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Miami, FL (MIA)	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