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Asylum BeaconU.S. immigration court data

Judges: Z

8 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
Zerbe, Craig M.not hearing casesCHICAGO — IMMIGRATION COURT3,11241%39%42%
Zagzoug, RandaNEW YORK — IMMIGRATION COURT2,97778%76%79%
Zlatow, Jeffreynot hearing casesLOS FRESNOS — IMMIGRATION COURT1,39020%18%22%
Zimmer, William K.not hearing casesMIAMI — IMMIGRATION COURT1,31922%20%25%
Zanfardino, Richard M.PORTLAND — IMMIGRATION COURT85623%20%26%
Zuniga, Bertha A.not hearing casesEL PASO — IMMIGRATION COURT83255%52%59%
Zastrow, John T.not hearing casesFLORENCE — IMMIGRATION COURT55124%21%28%
Zaske, Amy K.FORT SNELLING — IMMIGRATION COURT3347%5%11%
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.