Immigration judge

Cortes, John W.

New York - Varick Street Immigration Court

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Captured September 18, 2026 — about 0 months ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

Lifetime grant rate

34.2%

489 decisions

Grant rate, last 12 months on record

Not reported

Fewer than 25 decisions on record. A percentage drawn from so few decisions would be misleading, so it is withheld rather than shown.

31.5%

Court lifetime average

Grant-rate trend

Each point is the grant rate across the 12 months ending in that month — a rolling window, not a single month on its own. A point appears only where those 12 months hold at least 25 decisions. A rolling window covers a much shorter span than the lifetime figure above, so the two can differ materially; both are correct measures of different periods.

0%25%50%75%100%Sep 2019Aug 2020May 2022Mar 2023Apr 2024Month each 12-month window ends75.8%34.3% — 12 months ending Sep 2019 (198 decisions)32.9% — 12 months ending Oct 2019 (258 decisions)34.5% — 12 months ending Nov 2019 (301 decisions)33.6% — 12 months ending Dec 2019 (324 decisions)31.6% — 12 months ending Jan 2020 (376 decisions)31.1% — 12 months ending Feb 2020 (428 decisions)31.1% — 12 months ending Mar 2020 (456 decisions)29.9% — 12 months ending Apr 2020 (438 decisions)30.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2020 (420 decisions)30.5% — 12 months ending Aug 2020 (390 decisions)30.0% — 12 months ending Sep 2020 (360 decisions)30.2% — 12 months ending Oct 2020 (315 decisions)30.0% — 12 months ending May 2022 (273 decisions)30.8% — 12 months ending Jun 2022 (214 decisions)27.9% — 12 months ending Oct 2022 (172 decisions)28.7% — 12 months ending Nov 2022 (150 decisions)41.4% — 12 months ending Mar 2023 (111 decisions)55.0% — 12 months ending Mar 2024 (60 decisions)75.8% — 12 months ending Apr 2024 (33 decisions)

The line is broken where this record has no decisions for several months. It is left open rather than joined, because joining it would imply decisions that were never recorded.

5 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.

Same judge name at other courts

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Monthly decisions

Showing the most recent 24 months on record. Months with no decisions are not listed.

Decisions and grant rate by month for this judge
MonthDecisionsGrant rate
April 20241Not reported
March 20241Not reported
March 202313Not reported
November 20221Not reported
October 20221Not reported
June 20221Not reported
May 20226Not reported
October 20201Not reported
September 20201Not reported
August 20201Not reported
June 20203Not reported
April 20203Not reported
March 20202832.1%
February 20205226.9%
January 20205219.2%
December 201923Not reported
November 20194344.2%
October 20196028.3%
September 20194839.6%
August 20194628.3%
July 20193135.5%
June 20193122.6%
May 201921Not reported
April 201921Not reported

Source and method

These figures come from case data released by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act, published by the Deportation Data Project. Imigrar did not produce or estimate them.

Captured on September 18, 2026, about 0 months ago, so it is out of date. The record covers decisions from October 1997 through July 2026; nothing filed or decided after July 2026 appears here.

Grant rates are historical aggregates. They describe decisions already made. They do not predict the outcome of any individual case, and no figure on this page should be read as a forecast of what will happen in yours.

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