Judge Garcy, Annie S.

No hearings scheduled ahead

Last hearing: January 31, 2025
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: June 12, 2024

Courts worked at: 16

Worked here before

PHILADELPHIA — IMMIGRATION COURT1984—2025 · 32,020 hearings
STERLING — STERLING2022—2025 · 471 hearings
NEWARK — IMMIGRATION COURT1985—2022 · 86,467 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT1994—2020 · 954 hearings
BALTIMORE — IMMIGRATION COURT1992—2019 · 43 hearings
SAN DIEGO — IMMIGRATION COURT1990—2017 · 184 hearings
PEARSALL — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2014 · 138 hearings
CHICAGO — IMMIGRATION COURT2009—2009 · 39 hearings
HARLINGEN — IMMIGRATION COURT1986—2009 · 951 hearings
Orlando — IMMIGRATION COURT2002—2007 · 67 hearings
BOSTON — IMMIGRATION COURT1999—2005 · 66 hearings
NAPANOCH — IMMIGRATION COURT1992—2000 · 689 hearings
LOS FRESNOS — IMMIGRATION COURT1990—1999 · 8,823 hearings
NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT1992—1996 · 70 hearings
LAREDO — IMMIGRATION COURT1992—1992 · 19 hearings
MIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT1989—1992 · 320 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 3,380 decisions · FY1975–FY2023

95% interval: 43% — 46%

granted:: 1,501
denied:: 1,879
other protection: withholding and the Convention Against Torture:: 2

Withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture let a person stay, but grant no refugee status and no path to a green card. They are therefore excluded from the asylum grant rate and shown as a separate figure.

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 judge44% (3,380)
The whole court — NEWARK — IMMIGRATION COURT28% (34,751)
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.

Show as a table

Grant rate by fiscal year
Period	decisions	granted	95% interval
FY2023	82	74%	64% — 83%
FY2022	79	71%	60% — 80%
FY2021	34	85%	70% — 94%
FY2020	71	52%	41% — 63%
FY2019	119	50%	41% — 58%
FY2018	57	35%	24% — 48%
FY2017	33	58%	41% — 73%
FY2016	30	70%	52% — 83%
FY2015	25	80%	61% — 91%
FY2014	46	78%	64% — 88%
FY2013	73	64%	53% — 74%
FY2012	64	50%	38% — 62%
FY2011	100	57%	47% — 66%
FY2010	125	78%	70% — 85%
FY2009	138	49%	40% — 57%
FY2008	161	49%	41% — 57%
FY2007	132	46%	38% — 55%
FY2006	145	56%	48% — 64%
FY2005	133	35%	27% — 43%
FY2004	158	30%	23% — 37%
FY2003	171	37%	30% — 44%
FY2002	142	39%	32% — 48%
FY2001	108	53%	43% — 62%
FY2000	122	41%	33% — 50%
FY1999	182	28%	22% — 35%
FY1998	128	29%	22% — 37%
FY1997	140	34%	26% — 42%
FY1996	128	16%	10% — 23%
FY1995	118	25%	18% — 34%
FY1994	72	29%	20% — 41%
FY1993	56	34%	23% — 47%
FY1992	59	32%	22% — 45%
FY1991	103	38%	29% — 48%
FY1990	46	41%	28% — 56%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
CHINA	654	56%	53% — 60%
GUATEMALA	262	39%	33% — 45%
EL SALVADOR	221	23%	18% — 29%
HONDURAS	146	31%	24% — 39%
HAITI	129	22%	15% — 30%
INDIA	126	25%	18% — 33%
EGYPT	117	50%	41% — 59%
COLOMBIA	117	30%	22% — 39%
RUSSIA	89	64%	54% — 73%
LIBERIA	86	66%	56% — 75%
ALBANIA	85	33%	24% — 43%
Former Countries	71	58%	46% — 69%
INDONESIA	59	17%	9% — 28%
NICARAGUA	55	29%	19% — 42%
NIGERIA	53	36%	24% — 49%

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: 10—33 mo

based on 3,382 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2023	82	50 mo	44—53
FY2022	79	44 mo	38—51
FY2021	34	30 mo	25—36
FY2020	71	26 mo	19—40
FY2019	119	28 mo	15—39
FY2018	57	58 mo	46—72
FY2017	34	56 mo	48—63
FY2016	30	54 mo	46—68
FY2014	46	46 mo	23—115
FY2013	73	46 mo	30—54

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 decision	Appeals
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision	1,250
Denied	813
Remand	650
Summary Affirmance	293
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	195
Withdrawal of Appeal	186
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	163
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	139
Termination	98
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	86
Summarily Dismiss	74
Background Check Remand	68
Sustain	63
Granted	59
Temporary Protected Status	56
Other	48
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	27
Dismiss Soriano	26
Dismiss as Untimely	20
Grant with no Remand	16
Moot Bond	15
Terminate-DHS PD	14
Continued	14
Administratively Closed-DHS PD	13
Deferred Enforced Departure	11
Coercive Population Control	7
Administratively Closed	6
Summary Dismissal (G) untimely or waived appeal	4
Rejection	3
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	3
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	3
Conditional Grant--CPC Asylum	2
Denied Soriano	2
Granted Soriano	2
ROP Returned to Court to correct deficiency	1
Dismissed as Moot	1
American Baptist Church Settlement	1
Other Soriano	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.