Judge Sloan, Andrea

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing: September 26, 2024
Next hearing: April 21, 2027 · 15 scheduled in all
Last decision: July 26, 2019

Courts worked at: 4

Hearings scheduled here

SEATTLE — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2024 · 96 hearings

Worked here before

PORTLAND — IMMIGRATION COURT1986—2020 · 20,052 hearings
TACOMA — IMMIGRATION COURT2011—2014 · 66 hearings
PEARSALL — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2014 · 127 hearings

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.

44%

Asylum grant rate

of 645 decisions · FY1995–FY2018

95% interval: 41% — 48%

granted:: 287
denied:: 358

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 judge44% (645)
The whole court — PORTLAND — IMMIGRATION COURT31% (7,087)
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

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

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (1): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

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Grant rate by fiscal year
Period	decisions	granted	95% interval
FY2018	3	0%	0% — 56%
FY2017	100	55%	45% — 64%
FY2016	193	46%	39% — 53%
FY2015	96	45%	35% — 55%
FY2014	79	49%	39% — 60%
FY2013	68	32%	22% — 44%
FY2012	68	32%	22% — 44%
FY2011	38	47%	32% — 63%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
MEXICO	301	23%	18% — 28%
GUATEMALA	128	63%	55% — 71%
EL SALVADOR	37	59%	43% — 74%
HONDURAS	36	72%	56% — 84%
INDIA	21	71%	50% — 86%
CHINA	16	88%	64% — 97%
RUSSIA	12	83%	55% — 95%
VENEZUELA	8	50%	22% — 78%
PERU	6	50%	19% — 81%
ARMENIA	6	33%	10% — 70%
NEPAL	5	40%	12% — 77%
GAMBIA	5	100%	57% — 100%
UKRAINE	4	0%	0% — 49%
BULGARIA	4	50%	15% — 85%
KENYA	3	67%	21% — 94%

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.

28 mo

median

half of cases: 14—42 mo

based on 645 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2017	100	34 mo	26—45
FY2016	193	17 mo	12—37
FY2015	96	27 mo	13—43
FY2014	79	34 mo	19—43
FY2013	68	32 mo	23—41
FY2012	68	32 mo	23—36
FY2011	38	27 mo	13—34

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.

15
cases waiting: 27 mo
already waited, median

Half have waited between 27 mo and 28 mo.
15 (100%) have a hearing scheduled later than the date this data was collected. The rest have no upcoming event in the release.

The queue counts proceedings with no decision in the release. The figure runs from the NTA date to the release cutoff — it is how long people have already waited, not how much longer they will. Shown separately: how many have a hearing scheduled after the cutoff. The rest have no upcoming event in the release and should not be read alongside live cases.

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 decision	Appeals
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision	253
Remand	146
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	58
Denied	37
Withdrawal of Appeal	12
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	11
Other	9
Administratively Closed	9
Background Check Remand	8
Termination	7
Administratively Closed-DHS PD	7
Summarily Dismiss	3
Summary Affirmance	2
Moot Bond	2
Grant with no Remand	1
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	1
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	1
Sustain	1

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.