Immigration judge Polly A. Webber

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Polly A. Webber
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Polly A. Webber as a serving immigration judge, code PAW, with 3,197 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2017. Of the 425 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2013–2017, 323 were granted (76.0%) and 102 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 69.3% at the San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 45.6% across every immigration court in 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

3,197
Proceedings completed, FY2013–2017: 18.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 76.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2013–2017: 323 granted of 425 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2013–2017)

Every immigration court in the country: 45.6% granted; 51,358 of 112,520 asylum applications decided
The San Francisco, CA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 69.3% granted; 4,314 of 6,221 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 2013 to 2017, this judge granted 323 asylum applications and denied 102 — 76.0% of those decided. A further 471 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Polly A. Webber completed 195 proceedings in FY2017, against 491 in FY2008

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 Polly A. Webber completed 195 proceedings in FY2017, against 491 in FY2008. 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
FY2017	195	19	35	16	48
FY2016	925	187	114	22	121
FY2015	877	216	32	11	100
FY2014	604	90	71	23	96
FY2013	596	77	71	30	106
FY2012	594	61	57	40	103
FY2011	587	71	53	80	88
FY2010	603	84	58	51	95
FY2009	442	60	56	48	79
FY2008	491	71	66	61	92

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 Polly A. Webber completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	12,568
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	212
Conroe, TX (CIC)	49
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	31
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	15
Orlando, FL (ORL)	14
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	8
San Diego, CA (SND)	5
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	4
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	3
Florence, AZ (FLO)	3
Imperial, CA (IMP)	2
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	2
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	2
Seattle, WA (SEA)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Houston, TX (HOU)	1
Miami, FL (MIA)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	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