Abraham L. Burgess — Immigration judge records

From FY2021 to FY2025, 180 of 594 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code ALB at Miami · MIA were grants (30.30%) and 414 were denials (69.70%). In the same years, the court recorded 20.49% and the national figure was 37.33%. EOIR data through 2026-08-31; past records do not predict an individual case.

Recorded grant share · Miami · MIA

Period

30.30%Grants 180 · Denials 414 · N 594
95% interval: 26.74%–34.12%

Judge code ALB: 30.30%N 594
Miami · MIA: 20.49%N 11,056; No court figure for this period
United States · all courts: 37.33%N 367,995; No national figure is published for this period

Among comparable judge codes at this court

33 judge codes at this court have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2021–FY2025. Their recorded grant shares range from 2.21% to 40.95%; the median is 19.85%.

Compare judges at this court

FY2026 so far: 14.17%127 records through 2026-08-31 · court: 4.76%
Record coverage: 3 courts with recordsFY1998–FY2026 · 22 court-years · Courts are not pooled
Hearing dates on calendar: 8,320 master · 2,327 individualMiami · MIA · proceedings with hearing dates, 2026-09–2029-08Hearing schedule
Data through: 2026-08-31EOIR records · official listing: Miami · MIA, checked 2026-09-16Data and sources

Historical outcomes by court

Each row is a fiscal year at the court stored on the dated record. Courts are not pooled; an official listing never moves old results to a new court. Small groups remain visible and are labeled.

Judge figures group saved asylum outcomes by the judge code on each EOIR proceeding. The code identifies the assigned judge; these records do not verify who personally made every application decision. How judge figures work

Recorded grant share by fiscal year at Miami · MIA

Judge code ALB
Miami · MIA
United States · all courts

National figures are published for FY2021–FY2025. A broken ring marks a value from fewer than 100 records.

Recorded grant and denial outcomes · EOIR dated records
Completion FY	Recorded grant share	Total (N)	Grant records	Denial records	95% interval
Miami · MIA Explore this court's full context
FY2026Partial year	14.17%	127	18	109	9.16%–21.29%
FY2025	26.40%	125	33	92	19.46%–34.75%
FY2024	57.81%Small sample	64	37	27	45.61%–69.13%
FY2023	24.84%	161	40	121	18.81%–32.05%
FY2022	29.59%	196	58	138	23.64%–36.32%
FY2021	25.00%Small sample	48	12	36	14.92%–38.78%
FY2020	13.64%	220	30	190	9.72%–18.80%
FY2019	10.00%	130	13	117	5.94%–16.36%
FY2018	16.67%Small sample	6	1	5	3.01%–56.35%
FY2017	0.00%Small sample	2	0	2	0.00%–65.76%
FY2011	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY2010	100.00%Small sample	1	1	0	20.65%–100.00%
FY2008	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY2007	0.00%Small sample	3	0	3	<0.01%–56.15%
FY2005	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY2004	0.00%Small sample	4	0	4	0.00%–48.99%
FY2003	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY2001	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
FY1999	0.00%Small sample	2	0	2	0.00%–65.76%
FY1998	0.00%Small sample	3	0	3	<0.01%–56.15%
Miami · KRO Explore this court's full context
FY2026Partial year	0.00%Small sample	1	0	1	0.00%–79.35%
Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court · HOU Explore this court's full context
FY2019	0.00%Small sample	15	0	15	0.00%–20.39%

Small sample: fewer than 100 grant or denial records. This share can swing widely.

These records do not predict an individual result or measure judge quality. A person may have more than one proceeding.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2 · Source files and checks · Attribution details

Historical grant and denial records by nationality

Nationality groups count grant and denial proceedings in FY2021–FY2025, not people.

The dated results have a different coverage period and do not contain individual nationality. Small groups can change sharply.

Recorded judge × court × nationality · FY2021–FY2025 and each fiscal year
Recorded nationality	FY2021–FY2025 · pooled	Total (N)	Court · same nationality	FY2025	FY2024	FY2023	FY2022	FY2021
Miami · MIA
Guatemala	23.91%Small sample	92	12.12% · N 1,790	3 / 18	2 / 3	8 / 31	9 / 25	0 / 15
Brazil	10.98%Small sample	82	5.46% · N 916	—	3 / 4	0 / 14	6 / 63	0 / 1
Honduras	23.75%Small sample	80	16.74% · N 1,547	0 / 9	0 / 6	13 / 39	6 / 21	0 / 5
Nicaragua	59.49%Small sample	79	27.16% · N 1,333	8 / 15	20 / 29	8 / 13	11 / 22	—
Haiti	18.33%Small sample	60	12.76% · N 682	0 / 3	1 / 1	5 / 24	5 / 25	0 / 7
Venezuela	67.44%Small sample	43	36.61% · N 956	4 / 11	1 / 3	1 / 4	15 / 17	8 / 8
Colombia	21.21%Small sample	33	13.58% · N 1,053	4 / 17	—	0 / 8	0 / 5	3 / 3
Cuba	12.00%Small sample	25	25.71% · N 957	2 / 16	1 / 6	0 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 1
El Salvador	14.29%Small sample	21	18.11% · N 403	—	—	3 / 16	0 / 3	0 / 2
Mexico	10.00%Small sample	20	6.19% · N 291	0 / 10	0 / 1	0 / 4	2 / 2	0 / 3
Chile	31.25%Small sample	16	13.18% · N 129	—	—	2 / 6	3 / 10	—
Russia	91.67%Small sample	12	79.37% · N 286	7 / 8	4 / 4	—	—	—
Peru	0.00%Small sample	11	7.92% · N 240	0 / 10	—	—	—	0 / 1
Jamaica	0.00%Small sample	3	9.09% · N 22	0 / 2	—	0 / 1	—	—
Kazakhstan	100.00%Small sample	3	72.00% · N 25	3 / 3	—	—	—	—
Ecuador	0.00%Small sample	2	8.22% · N 73	—	0 / 1	—	—	0 / 1
India	0.00%Small sample	2	60.00% · N 5	0 / 1	—	—	0 / 1	—
Turkiye	100.00%Small sample	2	39.13% · N 23	—	2 / 2	—	—	—
Zimbabwe	100.00%Small sample	2	100.00% · N 2	—	2 / 2	—	—	—
Bangladesh	100.00%Small sample	1	41.38% · N 29	—	—	—	—	1 / 1
Burma (Myanmar)	100.00%Small sample	1	66.67% · N 3	—	1 / 1	—	—	—
Cameroon	100.00%Small sample	1	100.00% · N 1	1 / 1	—	—	—	—
Dominican Republic	0.00%Small sample	1	41.67% · N 12	—	0 / 1	—	—	—
Turkmenistan	100.00%Small sample	1	60.00% · N 5	—	—	—	1 / 1	—
Vietnam	100.00%Small sample	1	40.74% · N 27	1 / 1	—	—	—	—

Small sample: fewer than 100 grant or denial records. This share can swing widely. Each fiscal year shows grants / N; — means no grant or denial record that year.

Judge means the code saved on the proceeding, not independently verified decision authorship. Flags are visual aids for mapped source categories; historical, unknown and non-geographic categories remain text-only.

EOIR CASE nationality aggregates · eoir-2026-08-nationality-complete-v1 · Download complete counts

Hearing schedule

One proceeding record is not necessarily a separate hearing session.

Asylum-associated records are a subset of All proceedings.

Schedule display range: 2026-09–2029-08 (36 months)

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Same count scale for both hearing types. Browse horizontally to see all 36 months.

Proceedings

Master Calendar Hearings

Individual / Merits Hearings

Months with no retained records show 0.

Retained schedule records exist outside the displayed months.

Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court · HOU

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Miami · KRO

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Miami · MIA

Monthly counts

Abraham L. Burgess · ALB · Miami · MIA · 2026-09–2029-08 · All proceedings · Asylum-associated proceedings · Proceedings with recorded hearing dates · EOIR · 2026-08 edition
Month	All proceedings · Master proceedings	All proceedings · Individual proceedings	Asylum-associated proceedings · Master proceedings	Asylum-associated proceedings · Individual proceedings
2026-09	961	74	565	62
2026-10	572	77	330	58
2026-11	445	54	275	47
2026-12	503	46	308	33
2027-01	326	56	212	38
2027-02	292	71	204	54
2027-03	400	79	252	66
2027-04	305	72	184	57
2027-05	337	62	187	57
2027-06	291	78	191	68
2027-07	335	60	199	45
2027-08	313	80	172	62
2027-09	342	64	216	49
2027-10	280	65	188	56
2027-11	258	56	114	50
2027-12	300	55	179	38
2028-01	178	56	94	36
2028-02	342	57	258	49
2028-03	347	65	248	57
2028-04	325	48	186	39
2028-05	182	78	126	58
2028-06	162	47	96	35
2028-07	124	59	65	46
2028-08	142	67	108	52
2028-09	60	74	43	64
2028-10	64	70	45	60
2028-11	34	57	26	41
2028-12	18	70	6	48
2029-01	1	59	1	43
2029-02	46	58	18	43
2029-03	8	75	1	58
2029-04	11	61	1	45
2029-05	2	60	0	42
2029-06	14	60	6	53
2029-07	0	75	0	58
2029-08	0	82	0	62

Retained: 10,983Excluded: 2,788Unable to confirm: 38Source files and checks

Dated result records

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Exact monthly record counts
Calendar month	Granted	Denied	Recorded as abandoned	Recorded as withdrawn	Recorded as not adjudicated	Recorded as administratively closed	Other recorded categories	No application result recorded	Total records	Grant or denial results (N)	Recorded grant share

Grant share = grants ÷ (grants + denials). Other categories are excluded; a zero denominator is not calculable.

Empty months mean no eligible source rows in this selection, not verified inactivity.

Filtered records by court and fiscal year

All eight saved result categories · same filters as the result list
Historical record court	Fiscal year	Granted	Denied	Recorded as abandoned	Recorded as withdrawn	Recorded as not adjudicated	Recorded as administratively closed	Other recorded categories	No application result recorded	Total records

Each row totals its eight categories using the current filters. Fiscal years run from 10-01 through 09-30.

One row per eligible proceeding · latest completion date first
Proceeding completion date	Historical record court	Saved application result

Counts use stored proceeding completion dates and judge codes. Later source releases may revise earlier records.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2 · Source files and checks

Recorded BIA appeals associated with this judge code

These records are linked to proceedings carrying this EOIR judge code in the 2026-08 source snapshot. The data do not establish that the coded judge personally issued the decision under BIA review.

Historical decision FY2021–FY2025 pooled · respondent-filed appeals (A)

This judge code has an unresolved identity or name association. Its BIA row is unavailable; this is not a zero count.

About these records

Questions about these records

Is this the judge’s asylum approval or denial rate?

It is the recorded grant share: of 594 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code ALB at Miami · MIA in FY2021–FY2025, 180 were grants (30.30%) and 414 were denials (69.70%).

Withdrawals, abandonment, administrative closure and other outcomes are outside this denominator. The judge code identifies the assigned judge; it does not prove who decided each application.

Why do other websites show a different number?

Publications count different things. This page counts asylum applications that ended in a grant or a denial in EOIR’s public CASE data, by fiscal year, at the court stored on each proceeding, and never pools courts.

Other reports may count other relief, such as withholding of removal or protection under the Convention Against Torture, count decisions rather than proceedings, combine courts or use other years. Compare the period, the population and N before comparing percentages.

Why are courts listed separately?

Each record keeps the court stored on its proceeding. This judge code has grant or denial records at 3 courts. They are shown separately and never pooled, and the official listing does not move older records to a new court.

Why is FY2026 marked as a partial year?

Fiscal year 2026 runs from 2025-10-01 to 2026-09-30, and the source data end on 2026-08-31. FY2026 figures cover only part of the year, so they are not compared with complete years.

What does a small sample mean here?

When fewer than 100 grant or denial records stand behind a share, one or two decisions can move it by several percentage points. Such figures are marked † or labeled as a small sample, and the 95% interval shows how wide the uncertainty is.

Where does this judge hear cases now?

EOIR’s official hearing directory, checked 2026-09-16, lists this name at Miami · MIA.

Under this judge code, the 2026-08 EOIR edition records hearing dates from 2026-09 to 2029-08 at Miami · MIA: 8,320 master and 2,327 individual proceedings.

A listing or a scheduled date does not establish a sole duty station.

Can these numbers predict my case?

No. They describe past records under a judge code. The outcome of a case depends on its own facts, evidence and law. For advice about your case, talk to a qualified lawyer or accredited representative.

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Data and sources

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-source-coverage-v1

Dated asylum records and recorded grants or denials are available by court and fiscal year.

Result record coverage

26,506Associated proceeding records

13,615Proceedings linked to asylum applications

6,213Eligible dated asylum records

1,113Dated grant or denial records

All courts and all stored dates in this source edition. These coverage counts do not change with the result-list filters.

Historical record courts: 19
Earliest recorded completion FY: FY1994
Latest recorded completion FY: FY2026 · Partial year

Why some source records are outside the dated results

7,401 eligible asylum records have no completion date.
8,735 eligible asylum records have no application result; 1,369 of them appear in the dated list. 7,366 records lack both a usable completion date and an application result. The missing-date and missing-result counts overlap.
1 asylum-linked proceedings have conflicting saved application results.

A blank date or result does not establish a pending case, an undecided application, or the absence of a decision. Missing dates are not assigned to an assumed fiscal year.

All eligible dated result categories are included through the source cutoff, without aggregate suppression filters.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · FY2026 is incomplete. Earlier stored dates may predate a judge’s appointment because assignment and saved completion date describe different events.

Nationality and representation selections do not filter this list. Case identifiers and personal attributes are not included.

Available historical coverage

Source coverage includes all normalized dated records for this identity. It is not verified decision authorship or a complete case history.

Coverage counting rules

Counts describe stored proceedings associated with the judge code, not unique cases, people, or verified decision authorship. Asylum applications are combined per proceeding using the same joins and conflict rules as the dated list.

13,614 asylum-linked proceedings meet the proceeding-type, case-link and result-consistency rules. These eligible records split into missing dates, invalid dates, dates after the cutoff, and dated records through the cutoff.

The dated list includes all saved result categories, including a blank result. Grant share uses only dated grants divided by dated grants plus denials; other categories are excluded.

These are saved results on proceedings assigned to the selected judge in EOIR data, not independently verified decision authorship. The application result has no separate decision timestamp. Completion dates may reflect a different event or later edits.

Each row represents one eligible proceeding after duplicate application rows are combined. Identical dates and results can appear multiple times. A person may have multiple proceedings. Within-day order does not indicate the sequence of decisions.

The public timeline includes all eight saved result categories and all stored completion years through the source cutoff. Conflicting application outcomes and inconsistent case joins remain excluded. Complete records can reconstruct counts hidden in legacy aggregate tables; those tables no longer provide a non-reconstruction guarantee.

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Directory checked: 2026-09-16EOIR hearing directory

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Miami · MIA · IJ · EOIR hearing directory

An official listing may include supervisory or multiple-court assignments; it does not establish a sole duty station.

Hearing schedule sources

Schedule filtering and source checks

The 2026-08 EOIR edition is grouped using a source cutoff of 2026-08-31. Counts describe proceeding records with retained future hearing dates, grouped by the judge and court codes stored on each schedule record. Records with a handling reason and other excluded records are kept outside the counts; records that cannot be confirmed are listed separately. All proceedings includes the reliably identified asylum-associated subset.

Later recorded hearing dates are included in the source coverage summary.

All proceedings · future hearing dates through 2036-08-31

These source coverage counts include all proceedings and do not change with the proceedings filter above.

Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0

Raw Master and Individual records: 0
Unconfirmed proportion: Not calculable
Historical schedule records: 23
Reliable asylum association: 21
No identifiable asylum association: 2

Miami · KRO

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0

Raw Master and Individual records: 0
Unconfirmed proportion: Not calculable
Historical schedule records: 217
Other schedule types: 81
Reliable asylum association: 44
No identifiable asylum association: 173

Miami · MIA

Retained: 10,983Excluded: 2,788Unable to confirm: 38

Raw Master and Individual records: 13,809
Unconfirmed proportion: 0.28%
Recorded handling reason: 2,783
Recorded proceeding completion: 5
Multiple future records without a handling reason: 38
Historical schedule records: 42,033
Future schedule records: 13,809
Other schedule types: 14
Retained records outside the displayed range: 336
Reliable asylum association: 34,892
No identifiable asylum association: 20,950
Schedule and proceeding judge codes differ: 1
Update precedes entry date: 53

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BIA appeal sources

BIA scope and counting rules

These are historical pooled counts, not a judge score or a current pattern. This product has no annual judge-code breakdown. DIS does not prove this judge was affirmed; REM is not an asylum grant; SUS is not a final asylum outcome.

Recorded BIA disposition patterns can change over time. These FY2021–FY2025 counts are not a permanent characteristic of this judge code. Changes may coincide with law, policy, administration, BIA composition, case mix or backlog; these descriptive data do not establish a cause.

All-party source coverage is separate from the respondent-filed table. National parent appeal events: 119,252 · Linked to a stored judge code: 119,155.

Respondent-filed source events: 109,995 · Linked to a stored judge code: 109,915 · Published respondent-filed events: 67,156 · Respondent-filed events with identity limitations: 42,759.

Judge code: ALB · Stored source field: B_TblProceeding.IJ_CODE · Population: bia-decided-stored-judge-chronology-clean-1.

Disposition date basis: tblAppeal.datBIADecision · Historical period: 2020-10-01–2025-09-30 · Source cutoff: 2026-08-31.

The stored code is an association in the snapshot, not proof of decision authorship or assignment when the original decision was issued. Today’s judge directory and court listing describe current context only.

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Used on this page: Dated results, historical outcomes and saved hearing schedules

Historical result coverageFY1994–FY2026 · Partial year: FY2026

Source edition2026-08

Source snapshot cutoff2026-08-31

The first and last available fiscal years bound this range; intervening years may have no records. Saved hearing dates and BIA disposition periods have separate coverage.

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Standard comparison periodFY2021–FY2025

Source obtained or reviewed for this edition: 2026-09-14

Official source recheck · 2026-09-16

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Official judge hearing directory

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Saved observation date2026-09-16

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Abraham L. Burgess — Immigration judge records

Historical outcomes by court

Recorded grant share by fiscal year at Miami · MIA

Historical grant and denial records by nationality

Hearing schedule

Master Calendar Hearings

Individual / Merits Hearings

Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court · HOU

Miami · KRO

Miami · MIA

Monthly counts

Dated result records

Results for the current selection

Monthly record distribution for this selection

Filtered records by court and fiscal year

Recorded BIA appeals associated with this judge code

Questions about these records

Is this the judge’s asylum approval or denial rate?

Why do other websites show a different number?

Why are courts listed separately?

Why is FY2026 marked as a partial year?

What does a small sample mean here?

Where does this judge hear cases now?

Can these numbers predict my case?

Data and sources

Result record coverage

Available historical coverage

Official court listing

Hearing schedule sources

Houston - Jefferson Street Immigration Court

Miami · KRO

Miami · MIA

BIA appeal sources

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