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Asylum BeaconU.S. immigration court data

Judges: Y

10 judges

Lists are ordered by number of decisions, not by grant rate: a best-to-worst ranking of this data would mislead.

Judges with fewer than 50 decisions are not listed: at that sample size the percentage is noise rather than a characteristic. Their pages still open by direct link.

U.S. immigration judges: volume and asylum grant rate
JudgeCourtDecisionsGranted95% interval
Yates, Clarease RankinHOUSTON — IMMIGRATION COURT3,03119%17%20%
Yeargin, Robertnot hearing casesSAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT1,31732%29%34%
Yamaguchi, Michael J.not hearing casesSAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT1,12838%36%41%
Yeomans, Sarah Beth.STERLING — STERLING91231%28%34%
Yam, Miminot hearing casesSAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT90331%28%34%
Young, Elizabeth L.nothing scheduledSAN FRANCISCO — IMMIGRATION COURT69571%67%74%
Yarbrough, Susannot hearing casesCONROE — IMMIGRATION COURT65015%12%18%
Young, Victoria E.not hearing casesTACOMA — IMMIGRATION COURT24124%19%30%
Yokoyama, LoriCHICAGO — IMMIGRATION COURT13011%7%17%
Ybarra, Jesus Juan.LAREDO — IMMIGRATION COURT582%0%9%
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.