Richard Bailey
Immigration Judge, Newark Immigration Court. Appointed December 2022.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 553
- Asylum granted
- 132
- Other relief granted
- 8
- Denied
- 413
- Against own court
- +4.4 pts
| FY23 |
|---|
| 75% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 79% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: Ecuador (37.8%), Brazil (37.3%), Honduras (8.3%), Guatemala (6.7%), Colombia (2.9%).
Official biography
Richard J. Bailey was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in December 2022. Judge Bailey ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2005 from Fordham University and a Juris Doctor in 2012 from the City University of New York School of Law. From 2014 to 2022, he was a staff attorney and then a supervising attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services in New York where he represented individuals before EOIR; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security; and the U.S. District Courts. From 2012 to 2014, he served as a staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Bailey is a member of the New Jersey State Bar and the New York State Bar.
In the record
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Other judges at Newark
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.