Immigration judge Michael K. Suarez

EOIR records Michael K. Suarez as a former immigration judge, code MKS, with 4,498 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2002 and 13.8% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

4,498
Proceedings completed, FY1998–2002: 9.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 13.8%
Asylum grant rate, FY1998–2002: 15 granted of 109 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 1998 to 2002, this judge granted 15 asylum applications and denied 94 — 13.8% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 282 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Michael K. Suarez, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2002	255	0	0	1	7
FY2001	1,827	0	0	11	24
FY2000	1,248	1	3	22	72
FY1999	563	144	9	25	54
FY1998	605	278	3	35	125
FY1997	694	330	12	79	134
FY1996	886	237	8	50	84
FY1995	879	270	3	47	66
FY1994	843	208	9	53	73
FY1993	722	144	11	27	69

Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.

Where the proceedings were

Immigration courts where Michael K. Suarez completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Houston, TX (HOU)	5,694
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	3,531
Conroe, TX (CIC)	616
Houston, TX (HSG)	411
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	130
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	19
Chicago, IL (CHI)	18
Detroit, MI (DET)	18
Laredo, TX (LRO)	17
Miami, FL (MIA)	14
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	13
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	9
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	8
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	7
Boston, MA (BOS)	6
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	5
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	2
El Paso, TX (ELP)	1
El Paso, TX (EPD)	1
Hartford, CT (HAR)	1

The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.

Sources

EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026