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Inside Immigration

Plain-language guides to US immigration, asylum and USCIS procedure.

Immigration judges

New York - Varick

201 Varick Street, Room 507, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10014. 24 judges with a published asylum record; the court denied 60.9% of asylum cases against 62.9% nationally.

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Judges

median denial rate 62.0%
JudgeAppointedDecisionsDenial rateLeaning
Maria I. AkalskiDecember 202213198.5%Strict
Dara ReidJune 20202,09381.6%Strict
Ubaid Ul-HaqJanuary 202010781.3%Strict
Charles OuslanderDecember 202148680.2%Strict
Charlesa E. LondonMarch 202215878.5%Strict
Charles R. ConroyAugust 201747674.4%Strict
John DecureOctober 20221,13174.0%Strict
Francisco R. PrietoMarch 201986167.5%Average
Kyung S. AuhMarch 201917964.8%Average
Roger F. SagermanSeptember 200618164.1%Average
Richard DruckerDecember 20201,35962.8%Average
Lisa W. LingNovember 20182,71862.0%Average
Shayne R. BurnhamMarch 20191,42259.8%Average
Wendy WedderburnNovember 202331759.0%Average
Thomas MungovenOctober 202097951.3%Lenient
Forrest W. Hoover, IIIOctober 201911848.3%Lenient
Themistoklis AliferisFebruary 202313847.1%Lenient
Margaret M. KolbeJanuary 201667138.7%Lenient
Lucy BillingsNovember 202326638.0%Lenient
Jennifer DurkinAugust 202331036.8%Lenient
David NorkinJanuary 202040028.5%Lenient
Silvia LopezNovember 202311823.7%Lenient
Thomas J. MulliganOctober 200547616.0%Lenient
Shifra RubinJanuary 201622813.2%Lenient