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Judge Palmer, Brian T.

NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing
July 31, 2026
Next hearing
August 3, 2026 · 6,324 scheduled in all
Last decision
July 31, 2026
Now sitting at
CHARLOTTE — IMMIGRATION COURT
Courts worked at: 12

Hearings scheduled here

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.

20%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,588 decisions · FY1993–FY2026

95% interval: 18% — 22%

granted:
321
denied:
1,267
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 judge20% (1,588)
  • The whole court — NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT57% (230,016)
  • 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%20192020202220242026

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

FY2026 is incomplete: the release covers only 10 of its 12 months. Its point is drawn hollow and the segment leading to it is dashed.

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (9): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

Show as a table
Grant rate by fiscal year
Perioddecisionsgranted95% interval
FY2026partial3708%6% — 11%
FY20253704%2% — 7%
FY20248414%8% — 23%
FY2023442%0% — 12%
FY20225215%8% — 28%
FY20211663%39% — 82%
FY202026333%28% — 39%
FY201937442%37% — 47%
FY20162100%34% — 100%
FY201420%0% — 66%
FY201130%0% — 56%
FY201010%0% — 79%
FY200910%0% — 79%
FY200410%0% — 79%
FY200110%0% — 79%
FY199730%0% — 56%
FY199510%0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationalitydecisionsgranted95% interval
HONDURAS2445%3% — 9%
CHINA20472%66% — 78%
MEXICO1460%0% — 3%
EL SALVADOR1434%2% — 9%
GUATEMALA1391%0% — 5%
VENEZUELA10716%10% — 24%
INDIA7934%25% — 45%
BRAZIL660%0% — 6%
ECUADOR643%1% — 11%
COLOMBIA602%0% — 9%
NICARAGUA5024%14% — 37%
NEPAL3040%25% — 58%
BANGLADESH2832%18% — 51%
RUSSIA2446%28% — 65%
PERU150%0% — 20%

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.

37 mo

median

half of cases: 18—52 mo

based on 1,588 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided inCasesmedianhalf of cases, mo
FY202637050 mo37—76
FY202537030 mo14—42
FY20248430 mo13—32
FY2023446 mo5—10
FY2022527 mo4—65
FY202026333 mo17—48
FY201937443 mo31—53

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.

5,213
cases waiting
33 mo
already waited, median
  • Half have waited between 28 mo and 42 mo.
  • 5,204 (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 decisionAppeals
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision259
Remand57
Summary Affirmance28
Summary Dismissal (G) untimely or waived appeal23
Denied20
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief18
Withdrawal of Appeal7
Summarily Dismiss6
ROP Returned to Court to correct deficiency5
Termination5
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA4
Terminate-DHS PD2
Rejection1
Other1
Grant with no Remand1
Administratively Closed1

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.