The Honorable Immigration Judge Ana Lorena Quiros

Hyattsville, MD Immigration Court
Appointed November 2024 · President Joe Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland
1 year on the immigration bench
Appointed under a Democratic administration

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Background

The Honorable Immigration Judge Ana Lorena Quiros earned a Bachelor of Science in 1994 from the University of Miami and a Juris Doctor in 2001 from Nova Southeastern University with a Certificate of International Concentration. From 2021 to 2024, she was in private practice as president of Quiros Law PLLC in Florida. From 2019 to 2021, she served as an asylum officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Miami, and earlier she was a managing attorney and staff attorney with Catholic Charities Legal Services of the Archdiocese of Miami as well as a solo practitioner and partner in private practice.

Caseload & process (since 2021)
322
Completions per year
1,932 total
4.5%
Detained at decision
share of cases
20.2 mo
Median time to decision
from case start
20.4%
Ordered removed in absentia
person absent
20.2%
Decisions appealed to BIA
appeal rate
Appeals remanded or reversed
only 19 appeals — too few

Bond decisions

Custody redetermination (bond) rulings since 2021. "Granted" means the judge lowered the bond, ordered release on recognizance, or otherwise granted the request.
0%
Bond requests granted
1 bond decision Too few cases
Median bond when set
Released on own recognizance
This judge 0%
Court average 25.5% · median $10,500
National 41.9% · median $6,500

Grant rates by type of relief

Share granted among merits decisions for each application type, since 2021.
Asylum
24.1% 440 decisions High confidence
Withholding / CAT
5.4% 646 decisions High confidence
Cancellation — 42B (non-LPR)
0% 1 decision Too few cases
Adjustment of status (245)
100% 4 decisions Too few cases
Voluntary departure
97.1% 69 decisions Moderate
24.1%
of asylum claims granted on the merits High confidence
Based on 440 asylum decisions (grants + denials) since 2021.
This judge
24.1%
This court
42%
National average
31.8%
0%100% granted
In the bottom 47% of the 825 judges nationally with enough cases to compare.

Does a lawyer matter here?

Asylum grant rate by whether the person had legal representation.
With a lawyerrepresented · 326 decisions since 2021
30.1%
Without a lawyerunrepresented · 114 decisions since 2021
7%

Asylum grant rate over time

Each point is that calendar year's grant rate, back to 2015 where the judge was deciding cases — the longer career view. Dashed grey line = current national average (31.8%). Headline rates above use 2021 – today.
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%2023: 0% of 2 decisions0%20232024: 33.3% of 9 decisions33.3%20242025: 27.2% of 356 decisions27.2%20252026 (partial year): 8.2% of 73 decisions8.2%2026*
* 2026 is a partial year (data through 06/01/2026) and is incomplete.

Courts where this judge has decided cases

Hearing locations for cases this judge completed since 2021, by number of decisions. Many judges hear cases from more than one court (detained facilities, video dockets, or reassignments).
Hyattsville, MD · home court
1,773 (92%)
119 (6.2%)
6 (0.31%)
5 (0.26%)
5 (0.26%)
5 (0.26%)