Immigration court

Buffalo Immigration Court

Buffalo, NY, 14202

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

Quick answer

Buffalo Immigration Court is one of the U.S. immigration courts in this record. The court-wide asylum grant rate in the release is 20.5%. 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.

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Court-wide grant rate

20.5%

8,607

Decisions on record

Judges

Court location

130 Delaware Avenue, Suite 300

Buffalo, NY, 14202

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.

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

Judges on record at this court

Judges at this court, with lifetime grant rate and decisions on record
Judge	Grant rate	Decisions
Baumgarten, Mary C.	3.9%	1,765
Ruehle, Walter H.	36.1%	1,404
Lohr, Brandi	9.5%	931
Hochul, Denise	49.1%	821
Connelly, Steven J.	23.9%	798
Montante Jr., Philip J.	25.3%	740
Reid, John B.	17.2%	715
Schultz, Eric	8.8%	399
Driscoll, Robert	13.4%	284
Counihan, Brian	2.7%	226
Rocco, Michael	37.3%	158
Aikman, Susan	22.2%	117
Staszak, Christopher	0.0%	60
Harbeck, Dorothy A.	16.7%	30
Merriman, Joy A.	13.8%	29
Sydnor, Kelley N	Not reported	18
Johnson-Papillo, Carrie C.	Not reported	16
Poczter, Aviva L.	Not reported	13
Owens, Robert P.	Not reported	12
Golovnin, Lena	Not reported	11
Ellison, Sarah M.	Not reported	9
Mccarthy, James M.	Not reported	9
Rey Caldas, Carmen	Not reported	6
Freeman, D'Anna H.	Not reported	4
Hladylowycz, Roxanne C.	Not reported	4
Leonard, Joseph T.	Not reported	4
Ghartey, Victoria L.	Not reported	3
Renner, Renee L.	Not reported	3
Hom, Sandy	Not reported	2
Hoover, Forrest W.	Not reported	2
Jaroch, Brandon	Not reported	2
Mccormack, Nancy R.	Not reported	2
Sagerman, Roger F.	Not reported	2
Guidry, Monica Thompson	Not reported	1
Lurye, Maria	Not reported	1
Martz, Nicholas A.	Not reported	1
Owens, Jonathan W.	Not reported	1
Rainey, Zol	Not reported	1
Sanders, Charles J.	Not reported	1
Videla, Gabriel C.	Not reported	1
Ward, George James	Not reported	1

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.

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.

Open the source data — Deportation Data Project

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