Immigration judge William Joyce

EOIR records William Joyce as a former immigration judge, code WPJ, with 2,002 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2004 and 59.5% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

2,002
Proceedings completed, FY2000–2004: 30.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 59.5%
Asylum grant rate, FY2000–2002: 239 granted of 402 decided

Over the 3 fiscal years from 2000 to 2002, this judge granted 239 asylum applications and denied 163 — 59.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 260 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge William Joyce, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2004	2	0	0	0	0
FY2003	0	0	0	0	0
FY2002	641	197	82	55	59
FY2001	674	186	82	50	101
FY2000	685	219	75	58	100
FY1999	622	183	59	78	87
FY1998	794	192	23	47	165
FY1997	276	9	17	17	30
FY1996	2	1	0	0	0
FY1995	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 William Joyce completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Boston, MA (BOS)	3,058
Hartford, CT (HAR)	559
New York, NY (NYC)	33
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	19
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	18
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	14
Detroit, MI (DET)	13

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