Judge Perez, Irma

LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing: July 31, 2026
Next hearing: August 3, 2026 · 680 scheduled in all
Last decision: March 13, 2026

Courts worked at: 2

Hearings scheduled here

LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT2023—2026 · 10,665 hearings

Worked here before

SANTA ANA — IMMIGRATION COURT2023—2024 · 146 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.

45%

Asylum grant rate

of 184 decisions · FY1991–FY2025

95% interval: 38% — 52%

granted:: 83
denied:: 101

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 judge45% (184)
The whole court — LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT26% (102,953)
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 (7): 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
FY2025	96	41%	31% — 51%
FY2024	69	51%	39% — 62%
FY2023	9	100%	70% — 100%
FY2022	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY2021	3	0%	0% — 56%
FY1999	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1998	2	0%	0% — 66%
FY1996	2	0%	0% — 66%
FY1991	1	0%	0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
CHINA	46	85%	72% — 92%
MEXICO	24	8%	2% — 26%
NICARAGUA	24	17%	7% — 36%
GUATEMALA	16	25%	10% — 49%
EL SALVADOR	14	7%	1% — 31%
RUSSIA	12	83%	55% — 95%
COLOMBIA	7	14%	3% — 51%
ECUADOR	6	0%	0% — 39%
INDIA	5	80%	38% — 96%
HONDURAS	5	20%	4% — 62%
EGYPT	5	100%	57% — 100%
PERU	4	25%	5% — 70%
UKRAINE	3	100%	44% — 100%
NIGERIA	2	100%	34% — 100%
VENEZUELA	2	0%	0% — 66%

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.

39 mo

median

half of cases: 19—82 mo

based on 184 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2025	96	34 mo	11—87
FY2024	69	56 mo	25—82

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
Summarily Dismiss	3
ROP Returned to Court to correct deficiency	2
Withdrawal of Appeal	1
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	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.