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Judge Page, Alan L.

NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing
July 8, 2020
Next hearing
none scheduled
Last decision
July 8, 2025
Courts worked at: 5

Worked here before

The periods overlap, and that is not an error: a judge hears cases at a new court while still closing out old ones at the previous one. Each row answers "when did this judge work here", not "from when to when did they serve here".

Status is derived from the court calendar: whether the judge has hearings scheduled after the release cutoff. The EOIR release carries no personnel data, so retirement, removal, elevation to the BIA and extended absence cannot be told apart — only what the data shows is stated here. Hearings are scheduled two to three years out, so an empty calendar for a working judge is rare; for judges who went quiet in the last few months it may still be an artifact of the cutoff, which lags by about a month. The lookup table's "active" flag is not used: it disagrees with the calendar for a third of judges.

17%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,214 decisions · FY1975–FY2023

95% interval: 15%19%

granted:
209
denied:
1,005

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1975–FY2023 — not what happens in the court today. Asylum rules and the mix of cases have changed since.

How this percentage is calculated
Grant rate = granted / (granted + denied). Administrative closures, withdrawals, abandonment and "not adjudicated" are excluded from the denominator. The unit of count is a decision per proceeding, not per application: applicants almost always file asylum, withholding and CAT protection together. Withholding and CAT grants are counted separately from asylum. U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

How this compares

  • This judge17% (1,214)
  • The whole court — NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT33% (22,417)
  • All U.S. courts33% (1,350,724)

This comparison does not adjust for which cases a judge was given: judges see different nationalities, different shares of detained respondents, and different rates of legal representation. A difference in percentages does not by itself mean identical cases were treated differently.

Trend by fiscal year

0%25%50%75%100%199019942000200520102015

U.S. fiscal year: October 1 – September 30.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (3): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

Show as a table
Grant rate by fiscal year
Perioddecisionsgranted95% interval
FY2020617%3%56%
FY2015166%1%28%
FY2014119%2%38%
FY20131315%4%42%
FY20122227%13%48%
FY20112129%14%50%
FY20101040%17%69%
FY20092818%8%36%
FY20083216%7%32%
FY20073333%20%50%
FY20066523%15%35%
FY20056110%5%20%
FY20049020%13%29%
FY20038019%12%29%
FY20029514%8%22%
FY2001707%3%16%
FY200013323%16%30%
FY19997723%15%34%
FY19988619%12%28%
FY1997258%2%25%
FY1996911%2%44%
FY1995157%1%30%
FY1994170%0%18%
FY19933017%7%34%
FY1992938%4%15%
FY1991195%1%25%
FY19905223%14%36%
FY1989540%12%77%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationalitydecisionsgranted95% interval
CHINA47417%14%21%
EL SALVADOR753%1%9%
INDIA5816%8%27%
HAITI480%0%7%
ALBANIA4823%13%37%
PAKISTAN3923%13%38%
AFGHANISTAN3027%14%44%
JAMAICA284%1%18%
Former Countries2744%28%63%
BANGLADESH2516%6%35%
GHANA2421%9%40%
NIGERIA1926%12%49%
GUATEMALA195%1%25%
RUSSIA1619%7%43%
COLOMBIA1513%4%38%

How long a case takes

How long it took from service of the NTA to the decision on the application, for the cases this judge has already finished.

17 mo

median

half of cases: 9—27 mo

based on 1,214 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided inCasesmedianhalf of cases, mo
FY20083227 mo1177
FY20073339 mo1165
FY20066533 mo1540
FY20056125 mo1831
FY20049020 mo1427
FY20038021 mo1725
FY20029524 mo2030
FY20017021 mo1631
FY200013316 mo1219
FY19997710 mo714

Duration runs from the NTA date (charging document served) to the decision on the application. Median, not mean: the distribution has a long right tail. Cases decided this year may have begun a decade ago, so duration by year of decision is not a forecast for a case filed today.

The queue

Cases with no decision yet. A different figure from the duration of completed cases: quick cases leave the queue first, so the long ones accumulate among those still waiting.

No undecided cases in this release.

What became of appeals to the BIA

An immigration judge's decision can be appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals. This is what the Board did with those appeals. A high share of reversals and remands tells a different story than a low grant rate alone.

What became of appeals to the BIA
BIA decisionAppeals
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision1,521
Denied577
Summary Affirmance430
Remand320
Withdrawal of Appeal226
Dismiss Soriano117
Termination110
Other102
Granted58
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA57
Summarily Dismiss49
Sustain35
Temporary Protected Status31
Moot Bond22
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)21
Background Check Remand19
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD17
Dismiss as Untimely16
Denied Soriano13
Coercive Population Control10
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief8
Grant with no Remand8
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)7
Rejection6
Other Soriano6
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)5
Continued4
Terminate-DHS PD3
Administratively Closed-DHS PD2
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal2
MB1
Deferred Enforced Departure1
Summary Dismissal (G) untimely or waived appeal1

Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not provide legal advice. The data lags by roughly a month; for current case status use ACIS and Respondent Access. The source is known to have missing records, including relief applications — absent data does not mean it is absent from your case.