Judge Mcmanus, Margaret

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: November 27, 2020
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: July 28, 2025

Courts worked at: 9

Worked here before

NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT1985—2020 · 81,781 hearings
CONROE — IMMIGRATION COURT2017—2017 · 286 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT2016—2016 · 129 hearings
PEARSALL — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2015 · 209 hearings
NEWARK — IMMIGRATION COURT2014—2014 · 145 hearings
NAPANOCH — IMMIGRATION COURT1990—2007 · 71 hearings
DETROIT — IMMIGRATION COURT2000—2004 · 59 hearings
MIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT1992—1993 · 36 hearings
BUFFALO — IMMIGRATION COURT1991—1991 · 25 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.

76%

Asylum grant rate

of 8,067 decisions · FY1986–FY2019

95% interval: 75% — 77%

granted:: 6,120
denied:: 1,947

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1986–FY2019 — 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 judge76% (8,067)
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

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
FY2018	62	95%	87% — 98%
FY2017	221	92%	88% — 95%
FY2016	269	96%	93% — 98%
FY2015	257	92%	88% — 95%
FY2014	294	93%	90% — 96%
FY2013	361	92%	89% — 95%
FY2012	382	95%	93% — 97%
FY2011	286	90%	85% — 93%
FY2010	297	81%	76% — 85%
FY2009	260	83%	78% — 87%
FY2008	264	84%	79% — 88%
FY2007	420	87%	83% — 90%
FY2006	307	87%	82% — 90%
FY2005	285	88%	83% — 91%
FY2004	354	88%	84% — 91%
FY2003	394	82%	78% — 86%
FY2002	331	94%	91% — 96%
FY2001	280	91%	88% — 94%
FY2000	285	81%	76% — 85%
FY1999	286	76%	70% — 80%
FY1998	320	58%	53% — 64%
FY1997	285	57%	51% — 62%
FY1996	468	31%	27% — 35%
FY1995	464	19%	16% — 23%
FY1994	170	38%	31% — 45%
FY1993	168	47%	40% — 55%
FY1992	229	71%	65% — 76%
FY1991	62	55%	43% — 67%
FY1990	2	0%	0% — 66%
FY1989	2	0%	0% — 66%
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
CHINA	4,565	82%	81% — 83%
INDIA	261	55%	49% — 61%
ALBANIA	255	89%	85% — 93%
PAKISTAN	208	50%	43% — 56%
MAURITANIA	178	74%	67% — 80%
EL SALVADOR	165	18%	13% — 25%
Former Countries	163	82%	75% — 87%
BANGLADESH	156	56%	48% — 63%
NEPAL	132	85%	78% — 90%
GUINEA	123	79%	71% — 85%
INDONESIA	118	79%	71% — 85%
AFGHANISTAN	113	81%	72% — 87%
RUSSIA	110	87%	80% — 92%
Former Countries	80	96%	90% — 99%
EGYPT	73	96%	89% — 99%

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.

25 mo

median

half of cases: 14—39 mo

based on 8,067 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2018	62	51 mo	46—56
FY2017	221	49 mo	46—53
FY2016	269	46 mo	43—50
FY2015	257	41 mo	38—47
FY2014	294	37 mo	33—45
FY2013	361	34 mo	30—45
FY2012	382	31 mo	26—43
FY2011	286	26 mo	21—39
FY2010	297	24 mo	18—39
FY2009	260	20 mo	14—30

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	632
Denied	352
Remand	311
Summary Affirmance	129
Termination	103
Granted	90
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	90
Sustain	87
Coercive Population Control	76
Withdrawal of Appeal	68
Background Check Remand	41
Other	32
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	32
Summarily Dismiss	21
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	17
Dismiss as Untimely	14
Continued	11
Dismiss Soriano	9
Temporary Protected Status	8
Deferred Enforced Departure	7
Grant with no Remand	6
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	5
Denied Soriano	5
Terminate-DHS PD	4
Granted Soriano	4
Conditional Grant--CPC Asylum	3
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	3
Other Soriano	2
Administratively Closed-DHS PD	2
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	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.