Immigration court
Buffalo, NY, 14202
How current these figures are
Captured October 23, 2026 — 13 days ago. Decisions made since then are not included.
Buffalo Immigration Court is one of the U.S. immigration courts in this record. The court-wide asylum grant rate in the release is 1.4%. Individual judges at the same court differ substantially, so open a judge below for their own figures. These are historical figures, not a prediction about any case.
FY2026 court average
1.4%
The latest complete fiscal year (Oct 2025 - Sep 2026), not a lifetime figure.
6,602
Decisions on record
22
Judges
130 Delaware Avenue, Suite 300
Buffalo, NY, 14202
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.
39 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.
| Judge | Decisions |
|---|---|
| Baumgarten, Mary C. | 1,839 |
| Ruehle, Walter H. | 1,361 |
| Lohr, Brandi | 986 |
| Hochul, Denise | 803 |
| Montante Jr., Philip J. | 611 |
| Connelly, Steven J. | 430 |
| Staszak, Christopher | 174 |
| Rocco, Michael | 157 |
| Driscoll, Robert | 87 |
| Rubin, Alexander | 59 |
| Schultz, Eric | 51 |
| Owens, Robert P. | 12 |
| Sydnor, Kelley N | 11 |
| Counihan, Brian | 6 |
| Hladylowycz, Roxanne C. | 4 |
| Hoover, Forrest W., III | 2 |
| Jaroch, Brandon | 2 |
| Harbeck, Dorothy A. | 1 |
| Leonard, Joseph T. | 1 |
| Martz, Nicholas A. | 1 |
| Reid, John B. | 1 |
| Ward, George James, JR. | 1 |
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 October 23, 2026, 13 days ago. The record covers decisions from November 1997 through September 2026; nothing filed or decided after September 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.
This page is informational only and is not legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Only the official EOIR record is authoritative.
Statistics cannot tell you what will happen in your case. A consultation can tell you what your options are.
