Immigration judge Teofilo Chapa

EOIR records Teofilo Chapa as a serving immigration judge, code TC, with 2,078 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2019 and 11.3% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,078
Proceedings completed, FY2015–2019: 21.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 11.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2015–2019: 32 granted of 282 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2015 to 2019, this judge granted 32 asylum applications and denied 250 — 11.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 339 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Teofilo Chapa, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2019	31	20	0	10	1
FY2018	439	165	5	45	60
FY2017	469	92	10	64	56
FY2016	580	85	5	81	127
FY2015	559	77	12	50	95
FY2014	612	103	7	50	66
FY2013	599	77	2	45	88
FY2012	535	58	9	24	84
FY2011	586	107	7	15	69
FY2010	732	145	16	17	125

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 Teofilo Chapa completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Miami, FL (MIA)	16,256
Miami, FL (KRO)	287
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	265
Orlando, FL (ORL)	263
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	96
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	71
Detroit, MI (DET)	63
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	52
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	50
Memphis, TN (MEM)	50
New York, NY (NYC)	47
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	31
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	28
Jena, LA (JNA)	24
El Paso, TX (EPD)	22
Chicago, IL (CHI)	21
Laredo, TX (LRO)	17
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	11
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	10
Dallas, TX (DAL)	7
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	6
Atlanta, GA (ATD)	4
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	4
Houston, TX (HOU)	3
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	2
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	2
San Diego, CA (SND)	2
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	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