Immigration Judge at Elizabeth, NJ
Judge Richard Bailey serves at the Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court. With an asylum approval rate of 12.9%, this judge is below average compared to the national average. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
Immigration Judge Richard Bailey withdrew from consideration for a Brooklyn Defender Services immigration leadership role after the staff union publicly criticized his immigration-judge record.
Source: https://queenseagle.com/all/2025/12/8/immigration-judge-withdraws-from-public-defender-leadership-role-amid-staff-backlash
This post summarizes publicly reported news and links to the original source. Details may evolve; see the source for specifics.
Have experience with this judge? Open AsylumTracker to reply or read more responses from the community.
Richard Bailey is listed with the Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court. The headline asylum grant rate shown here is 12.9% based on granted and denied asylum decisions represented in the current dataset.
Among the largest nationality groups shown for this judge, the table highlights Ecuador (353 decided, 17.0% grant rate), Brazil (338 decided, 11.8% grant rate), and Mexico (271 decided, 5.2% grant rate). Compare these rows with the judge's overall rate because nationality mix can materially change how the headline number should be read.
Grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Other procedural outcomes, including terminated, withdrawn, administratively closed, or removed cases, are tracked separately where available and are not treated as asylum grants.
This page is based on public EOIR data last updated 2026-07-01. It is for research and information only, not legal advice.
Read the grant-rate methodology or learn how to read immigration judge statistics.
| Nationality | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 353 | 17.0% |
| Brazil | 338 | 11.8% |
| Mexico | 271 | 5.2% |
| Guatemala | 220 | 4.1% |
| Honduras | 194 | 17.5% |
| Dominican Republic | 141 | 5.0% |
| Colombia | 104 | 14.4% |
| El Salvador | 90 | 33.3% |
| Year | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 124 | 8.1% |
| 2025 | 726 | 8.4% |
| 2024 | 515 | 14.2% |
| 2023 | 848 | 16.5% |
| 2021 | 1 | 100.0% |
Judge Richard Bailey's asylum approval rate is 12.9% according to EOIR FOIA data.
The dataset lists 2,218 total asylum cases for Judge Richard Bailey.
The approval rate is calculated as granted divided by (granted + denied). It excludes terminations and withdrawals, and the source is EOIR FOIA data.