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Amadou S. Janneh
Source: www.visalaw.com
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW RELEASES FISCAL YEAR 2000 STATISTICS
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This week, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) released its
annual yearbook of statistics on the work of the agency. The EOIR is the
branch of the Department of Justice for which Immigration Judges and the
Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) work. Fiscal year 2000 saw an overall
increase in the number of cases received by Immigration Judges and a
decrease in the number of cases received by the BIA. The number of cases
received by Immigration Judges was 254,515, up 10% from 1999. The BIA
received 29,847 cases, a 16% decrease from 1999. Immigration courts in four
locations saw the number of cases received increase at least 50% - San
Antonio (50%), Bradenton, FL (61%), Portland, OR (97%), and Tucson (119%).
Of cases appearing before Immigration Judges, 30% involved citizens of
Mexico, 10% El Salvadorans, 8% Hondurans, 7% Chinese and 6% Guatemalans.
Before the BIA, 22% were Mexican, 12% Chinese, 7% El Salvadoran, 5% from the
Dominican Republic and 4% from Guatemala. By far and away the most commonly
used language in immigration proceedings was Spanish, in 61.5% of the cases.
In total, 191 different languages were used.
Only 44% of people appearing before an Immigration Court were represented by
an attorney or other authorized person, down from 1999, when 48% were
represented. Before the BIA the rate of representation is higher, 66%.
The number of asylum applications decreased from 54,266 in 1999 to 50,861 in
2000. Four offices, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco, handle
60% of all asylum cases. Asylum was granted in 36% of the cases. Offices
where the rate of asylum grants was low are Otay Mesa, CA (0%), Ulster, NY
(0%), Fishkill, NY (0%), Atlanta (3%), El Centro, CA (4%), and Eloy, AZ
(5%). Offices where asylum was granted more than 50% of the time are as
follows: Harlingen, TX (83%), Elizabeth, NJ (66%), San Juan, Puerto Rico
(59%), Phoenix (58%), Queens, NY (56%), San Francisco (54%), and Baltimore
(52%). In 2000, the most common nationalities of those receiving asylum
were Chinese, Indian, Russian, Somali and Albanian. Only 6% of cases filed
under the United Nations Convention Against Torture were granted.
Thirty-three percent of the cases completed by Immigration Courts during
2000 involved immigrants who were detained. At the BIA, 38% were detained.
The report is available on the EOIR website at
http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/statspub/SYB2000Final.pdf.
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