Immigration judge Leonard I. Shapiro

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Leonard I. Shapiro
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Leonard I. Shapiro as a serving immigration judge, code LIS, with 147 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2020.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

147
Proceedings completed, FY2016–2020: 11.6% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: Not ranked
Asylum grant rate: only 7 decided, under the 100 a rate needs here

This judge decided 7 asylum applications in the five fiscal years to 2020 — 5 granted and 2 denied. That is below the 100 this site needs before it will publish a rate, because at a hundred decisions the interval around one is already about nine points wide. A further 27 ended neither way.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Leonard I. Shapiro completed 1 proceedings in FY2020, against 957 in FY2009

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 Leonard I. Shapiro completed 1 proceedings in FY2020, against 957 in FY2009. 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
FY2020	1	0	0	0	0
FY2019	1	0	0	0	0
FY2016	145	17	5	2	27
FY2015	672	126	44	7	85
FY2014	675	117	35	19	77
FY2013	840	104	32	18	122
FY2012	762	119	31	22	76
FY2011	905	150	25	36	80
FY2010	931	137	32	34	108
FY2009	957	156	32	56	102

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 Leonard I. Shapiro completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Boston, MA (BOS)	21,994
Hartford, CT (HAR)	1,525
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	27
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	21
Omaha, NE (OMA)	19
New York, NY (NYC)	17
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	8
Detroit, MI (DET)	6
Chicago, IL (CHI)	4
Florence, AZ (FLO)	4
Houston, TX (HOU)	4
Miami, FL (MIA)	4
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	2
Conroe, TX (CIC)	2
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	1
Laredo, TX (LRO)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	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