Irma Diaz
Immigration Judge, Hyattsville Immigration Court. Appointed November 2024.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 676
- Asylum granted
- 80
- Other relief granted
- 10
- Denied
- 586
- Against own court
- +29.1 pts
| FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|
| 72% | 94% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 72% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: El Salvador (17.3%), Guatemala (11.8%), Honduras (10.9%), Venezuela (10.4%), Cameroon (8.3%).
Official biography
Irma Diaz was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in November 2024. Judge Diaz ear ned a Bachelor of Science in 2004 from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and a Juris Doctor in 2013 from Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law in White Plains, New York. From 2022 to 2024, she served as an assistant chief counsel with the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in Los Fresnos, Texas. From 2016 to 2022, she was an immigration attorney, and in 2019 be came a partner, at the Law Firm of Anayancy Housman (formerly known as Housman & Diaz). From 2014 to 2016, she was an immigration attorney at the Westchester Hispanic Coalition, a nonprofit organization (now part of Make the Road New York). Judge Diaz is a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, having joined as a direct commission officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps in June 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she provided legal assistance with the 4th Legal Operations Detachment in Fort Dix, New Jersey, and from 2017 to 2023, she served as a trial defense counsel with the 16th Legal Operations Detachment in Hamilton, New York. Judge Diaz is a member of the New Jersey State Bar, New York State Bar, and State Bar of Texas.
In the record
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Other judges at Hyattsville
Court page →About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.