Judge D'Ambrosio, Billino W

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: April 27, 2007
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: April 27, 2007

Courts worked at: 4

Worked here before

BOSTON — IMMIGRATION COURT1978—2007 · 17,496 hearings
HARTFORD — IMMIGRATION COURT1956—2001 · 5,679 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT1993—1993 · 27 hearings
BUFFALO — IMMIGRATION COURT1989—1990 · 29 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.

Asylum grant rate

of 1,308 decisions · FY1973–FY2001

95% interval: 7% — 9%

granted:: 103
denied:: 1,205

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1973–FY2001 — 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 judge8% (1,308)
The whole court — BOSTON — IMMIGRATION COURT42% (32,994)
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 (2): 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
FY2001	68	15%	8% — 25%
FY2000	119	15%	10% — 23%
FY1999	153	22%	16% — 29%
FY1998	82	4%	1% — 10%
FY1997	73	5%	2% — 13%
FY1996	62	8%	3% — 18%
FY1995	53	4%	1% — 13%
FY1994	30	3%	1% — 17%
FY1993	54	6%	2% — 15%
FY1992	42	2%	0% — 12%
FY1991	37	0%	0% — 9%
FY1990	93	8%	4% — 15%
FY1989	112	8%	4% — 15%
FY1988	124	2%	1% — 7%
FY1987	117	2%	0% — 6%
FY1986	40	0%	0% — 9%
FY1985	34	0%	0% — 10%
FY1984	12	8%	1% — 35%
FY1983	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1980	2	0%	0% — 66%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
EL SALVADOR	178	1%	0% — 4%
GUATEMALA	164	2%	1% — 5%
HAITI	131	4%	2% — 9%
Former Countries	78	0%	0% — 5%
POLAND	77	3%	1% — 9%
IRAN	52	13%	7% — 25%
LEBANON	46	4%	1% — 15%
CHINA	40	13%	5% — 26%
BRAZIL	32	3%	1% — 16%
HONDURAS	27	0%	0% — 12%
COLOMBIA	27	4%	1% — 18%
NICARAGUA	27	7%	2% — 23%
LIBERIA	21	10%	3% — 29%
ALBANIA	21	19%	8% — 40%
ETHIOPIA	20	20%	8% — 42%

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.

16 mo

median

half of cases: 10—26 mo

based on 1,308 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2001	68	14 mo	9—18
FY2000	119	12 mo	9—16
FY1999	153	12 mo	8—19
FY1998	82	22 mo	11—29
FY1997	73	20 mo	16—25
FY1996	62	15 mo	9—23
FY1995	53	17 mo	7—22
FY1994	30	14 mo	11—17
FY1993	54	13 mo	6—25
FY1992	42	18 mo	12—24

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	634
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	353
Remand	349
Denied	213
Withdrawal of Appeal	183
Granted	182
Temporary Protected Status	138
Other	130
Dismiss Soriano	77
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	72
Sustain	48
Summary Affirmance	45
Continued	37
American Baptist Church Settlement	35
Deferred Enforced Departure	28
Termination	22
Dismiss as Untimely	21
Summarily Dismiss	20
Rejection	10
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	7
Grant with no Remand	5
SPECIAL NACARA CONTINUATION	5
Dismissed as Moot	4
Denied Soriano	4
Other Soriano	4
Granted Soriano	3
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	3
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	3
MB	2
Terminate-DHS PD	2
ADD	2
Coercive Population Control	2
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	1
Moot Bond	1
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	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.