Judge Sandron, Ira

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: October 15, 2001
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: October 9, 2007

Courts worked at: 8

Worked here before

MIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT1983—2001 · 21,101 hearings
DETROIT — IMMIGRATION COURT1997—2001 · 192 hearings
NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT1975—2001 · 189 hearings
MEMPHIS — IMMIGRATION COURT1998—2001 · 124 hearings
LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT1996—2001 · 45 hearings
ATLANTA — IMMIGRATION COURT1999—2000 · 13 hearings
HAGATNA — IMMIGRATION COURT1999—1999 · 75 hearings
BALTIMORE — IMMIGRATION COURT1997—1998 · 22 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.

18%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,321 decisions · FY1986–FY2002

95% interval: 16% — 20%

granted:: 236
denied:: 1,085

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1986–FY2002 — 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 judge18% (1,321)
The whole court — MIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT19% (104,037)
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 (4): 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
FY2002	7	43%	16% — 75%
FY2001	127	24%	17% — 32%
FY2000	155	25%	18% — 32%
FY1999	79	23%	15% — 33%
FY1998	104	15%	10% — 24%
FY1997	50	14%	7% — 26%
FY1996	73	26%	17% — 37%
FY1995	48	21%	12% — 34%
FY1994	131	21%	15% — 29%
FY1993	195	15%	11% — 21%
FY1992	240	12%	9% — 17%
FY1991	109	8%	4% — 15%
FY1990	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1988	1	0%	0% — 79%
FY1986	1	0%	0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
NICARAGUA	612	12%	10% — 15%
HAITI	333	8%	6% — 12%
PERU	59	34%	23% — 47%
CUBA	56	61%	48% — 72%
CHINA	48	25%	15% — 39%
GUATEMALA	43	5%	1% — 15%
EL SALVADOR	30	3%	1% — 17%
COLOMBIA	28	29%	15% — 47%
MAURITANIA	15	20%	7% — 45%
BANGLADESH	9	67%	35% — 88%
HONDURAS	7	0%	0% — 35%
ALBANIA	7	100%	65% — 100%
SOMALIA	6	67%	30% — 90%
NIGERIA	6	67%	30% — 90%
CONGO	5	100%	57% — 100%

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.

20 mo

median

half of cases: 14—30 mo

based on 1,321 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2001	127	14 mo	9—21
FY2000	155	16 mo	11—20
FY1999	79	10 mo	6—14
FY1998	104	12 mo	6—18
FY1997	50	32 mo	22—42
FY1996	73	29 mo	22—35
FY1995	48	27 mo	24—35
FY1994	131	44 mo	25—47
FY1993	195	32 mo	23—40
FY1992	240	22 mo	18—27

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
Remand	561
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision	470
Denied	259
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	230
Summary Affirmance	150
Granted	136
Other	58
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	46
Withdrawal of Appeal	44
Deferred Enforced Departure	36
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	30
Temporary Protected Status	27
Sustain	22
Summarily Dismiss	20
Dismiss as Untimely	19
Terminate-DHS PD	13
Termination	13
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	10
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	8
Rejection	7
Grant with no Remand	5
Dismissed as Moot	5
Dismiss Soriano	5
Continued	3
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	3
SPECIAL NACARA CONTINUATION	1
Conditional Grant--CPC Asylum	1
American Baptist Church Settlement	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.