Judge Randall, Anthony J.

Not hearing cases: nothing for over two years

Last hearing: March 12, 2008
Next hearing: none scheduled
Last decision: May 30, 2006

Courts worked at: 7

Worked here before

MIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT1984—2008 · 20,647 hearings
SAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT1996—2004 · 417 hearings
LOS ANGELES — WEST LOS ANGELES IMMIGRATION COURT1997—2003 · 293 hearings
NEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT1995—2002 · 342 hearings
ELIZABETH — IMMIGRATION COURT2000—2001 · 56 hearings
GUAYNABO — IMMIGRATION COURT1996—1998 · 86 hearings
BUFFALO — IMMIGRATION COURT1997—1998 · 62 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.

37%

Asylum grant rate

of 2,188 decisions · FY1986–FY2006

95% interval: 35% — 39%

granted:: 808
denied:: 1,380

The period has closed

This judge no longer hears cases, so the figure describes FY1986–FY2006 — 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 judge37% (2,188)
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 (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
FY2006	212	38%	31% — 44%
FY2005	426	27%	23% — 31%
FY2004	289	37%	32% — 43%
FY2003	248	46%	40% — 52%
FY2002	194	46%	39% — 53%
FY2001	160	54%	47% — 62%
FY2000	108	52%	43% — 61%
FY1999	146	40%	33% — 49%
FY1998	108	26%	19% — 35%
FY1997	137	27%	20% — 35%
FY1996	157	23%	17% — 30%
FY1989	2	0%	0% — 66%
FY1986	1	0%	0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationality	decisions	granted	95% interval
HAITI	921	20%	18% — 23%
COLOMBIA	571	50%	46% — 55%
VENEZUELA	88	18%	12% — 28%
CHINA	78	44%	33% — 55%
PERU	65	65%	52% — 75%
NICARAGUA	61	34%	24% — 47%
GUATEMALA	50	56%	42% — 69%
CUBA	49	76%	62% — 85%
EL SALVADOR	37	57%	41% — 71%
HONDURAS	27	26%	13% — 45%
MEXICO	19	5%	1% — 25%
ARGENTINA	15	7%	1% — 30%
RUSSIA	15	73%	48% — 89%
INDIA	14	50%	27% — 73%
ALBANIA	13	69%	42% — 87%

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.

19 mo

median

half of cases: 13—29 mo

based on 2,188 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided in	Cases	median	half of cases, mo
FY2006	212	22 mo	18—29
FY2005	426	24 mo	19—39
FY2004	289	25 mo	19—36
FY2003	248	24 mo	17—32
FY2002	194	18 mo	14—23
FY2001	160	15 mo	11—23
FY2000	108	18 mo	13—24
FY1999	146	13 mo	9—20
FY1998	108	9 mo	7—16
FY1997	137	10 mo	8—15

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	600
Denied	406
Summary Affirmance	349
Remand	316
Summarily Dismiss	77
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA	61
Dismissed (Grant V/D 30 days)	59
Withdrawal of Appeal	45
Other	39
Termination	38
Sustain	34
Deferred Enforced Departure	29
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD	29
Background Check Remand	23
Dismiss as Untimely	22
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)	19
Terminate-DHS PD	19
Granted	13
Temporary Protected Status	13
Rejection	6
SUMMARY DISMISSAL - BOTH (a) & (e)	6
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief	5
Coercive Population Control	4
Grant with no Remand	3
Continued	3
Summary Dismissal (a) inad reason on appeal	2
Summary Dismissal (o) Other	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.