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Judge Weil, Jack H.

IMPERIAL — IMMIGRATION COURT

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing
July 30, 2026
Next hearing
August 13, 2026 · 59 scheduled in all
Last decision
February 18, 2026
Now sitting at
BALTIMORE — IMMIGRATION COURT
Courts worked at: 11

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.

40%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,101 decisions · FY1983–FY2026

95% interval: 37%43%

granted:
442
denied:
659
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 judge40% (1,101)
  • The whole court — IMPERIAL — IMMIGRATION COURT30% (5,562)
  • 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%199519982002200620212025

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

Years with fewer than 10 decisions are not plotted (13): at that sample size the percentage is noise. They remain in the table.

Show as a table
Grant rate by fiscal year
Perioddecisionsgranted95% interval
FY2026partial70%0%35%
FY202518636%29%43%
FY202418874%67%80%
FY202313886%79%91%
FY20226655%43%66%
FY2021524%1%13%
FY20202914%5%31%
FY201970%0%35%
FY201820%0%66%
FY201720%0%66%
FY201630%0%56%
FY201420%0%66%
FY201320%0%66%
FY200910%0%79%
FY20082143%24%63%
FY20074073%57%84%
FY20064441%28%56%
FY2005215%1%23%
FY2004215%1%23%
FY2003210%0%15%
FY2002339%3%24%
FY20012627%14%46%
FY20002413%4%31%
FY1999284%1%18%
FY1998410%0%9%
FY1997360%0%10%
FY1996307%2%21%
FY1995254%1%20%
FY199210%0%79%
FY199110%0%79%
FY199010%0%79%
FY198910%0%79%
FY198310%0%79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationalitydecisionsgranted95% interval
EL SALVADOR21437%31%44%
HONDURAS16153%45%60%
GUATEMALA13632%24%40%
MEXICO555%2%15%
NIGERIA5461%48%73%
IRAQ3689%75%96%
VIETNAM340%0%10%
CHINA2638%22%57%
CAMEROON2580%61%91%
PAKISTAN2268%47%84%
NICARAGUA2152%32%72%
ROMANIA2162%41%79%
CUBA1828%12%51%
VENEZUELA1878%55%91%
HAITI1850%29%71%

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.

23 mo

median

half of cases: 6—66 mo

based on 1,101 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided inCasesmedianhalf of cases, mo
FY202518657 mo3485
FY202418868 mo2980
FY202313863 mo5172
FY20226651 mo1270
FY2021529 mo613
FY2007406 mo48
FY2006447 mo425
FY2002334 mo38
FY1998413 mo28
FY1997363 mo25

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 decisionAppeals
Dismiss Appeal/Affirm IJ's Decision498
Withdrawal of Appeal149
Remand123
Summary Affirmance122
Denied103
Dismiss Soriano52
Other49
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA38
Sustain29
Dismiss as Untimely24
Moot Bond24
Granted22
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)21
Termination18
Summarily Dismiss11
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)8
Rejection8
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD6
Background Check Remand6
Summary Dismissal (G) untimely or waived appeal6
Continued5
Denied Soriano4
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief3
Other Soriano3
Grant with no Remand3
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal2
ROP Returned to Court to correct deficiency2
Temporary Protected Status2
MB1
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)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.