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Judge Perez-Guzman, Virginia

CHICAGO — IMMIGRATION COURT

Hearing cases: hearings are scheduled

Last hearing
July 30, 2026
Next hearing
August 3, 2026 · 5,221 scheduled in all
Last decision
March 12, 2026
Now sitting at
DALLAS — 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.

43%

Asylum grant rate

of 1,018 decisions · FY1991–FY2024

95% interval: 40% — 46%

granted:
434
denied:
584
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 judge43% (1,018)
  • The whole court — CHICAGO — IMMIGRATION COURT42% (35,363)
  • 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%20112015201820212024

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
Perioddecisionsgranted95% interval
FY20246018%11% — 30%
FY20236838%28% — 50%
FY20227151%39% — 62%
FY20214846%33% — 60%
FY202010243%34% — 53%
FY201910633%25% — 42%
FY201812520%14% — 28%
FY20178849%39% — 59%
FY20164333%20% — 47%
FY20154562%48% — 75%
FY20144360%46% — 74%
FY20134356%41% — 70%
FY20128367%57% — 77%
FY20118949%39% — 60%
FY200910%0% — 79%
FY200710%0% — 79%
FY200610%0% — 79%
FY199710%0% — 79%

By applicant nationality

Grant rate by nationality, largest volumes first
Nationalitydecisionsgranted95% interval
EL SALVADOR15416%11% — 23%
CHINA9667%57% — 75%
HONDURAS8725%17% — 35%
MEXICO7512%6% — 21%
GUATEMALA6821%13% — 32%
CAMEROON3661%45% — 75%
CUBA2871%53% — 85%
VENEZUELA2642%26% — 61%
EGYPT2378%58% — 90%
NICARAGUA2352%33% — 71%
PAKISTAN1958%36% — 77%
NIGERIA1974%51% — 88%
COLOMBIA1811%3% — 33%
HAITI1817%6% — 39%
INDIA1735%17% — 59%

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: 5—50 mo

based on 1,018 cases

NTA-to-decision duration by fiscal year
Decided inCasesmedianhalf of cases, mo
FY2024607 mo4—23
FY2023685 mo3—49
FY20227157 mo31—66
FY20214856 mo43—58
FY20201025 mo4—13
FY20191065 mo3—33
FY201812528 mo24—33
FY2017886 mo5—15
FY2016436 mo4—8
FY20154537 mo18—53

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 Decision385
Remand134
Denied86
Dismissed (Voluntary Departure Granted)27
Summary Affirmance25
Withdrawal of Appeal22
Lacks Jurisdiction - BIA14
Termination12
Summarily Dismiss11
Moot Bond11
Summary Dismissal (G) untimely or waived appeal7
Background Check Remand6
Summary Dismissal (e) no brief6
Administratively Closed-DHS PD5
Other4
Sustain2
Administratively Closed2
SUMMARY AFFIRMANCE/VD1
Grant with no Remand1
Terminate-DHS PD1
Withdrawal-DHS PD1

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.