Graphical Highlights
 
Maximum Average Minutes Available per Matter Received

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Immigration Judges with Regular Caseload 202 209 206 208 214 218 212 211 218 205
Time in Minutes (in thousands)*      24,240     25,080     24,720     24,960     25,680     26,160     25,440     25,320     26,160     24,600
Number of Matters Received 282,348 245,791 253,181 282,396 290,400 299,144 299,744 370,029 351,301 334,607
Average minutes available per matter received 86 102 98 88 88 87 85 68 74 74

* Note that this calculation provides a maximum level of minutes per matter since no allowance is made for personal vacation time, sick leave, or other duties and responsibilities not directly related to the processing of individual matters. Because of the many factors that influence the amount of time required to adequately deal with each matter brought before an immigration judge, simple case counts of matters received present a highly imperfect measure of how workload demands have changed over time. Calculated on the basis of 2000 annual hours per judge.


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