Claudia Cubas at a glance
- Current role
- Immigration Judge
- Jurisdiction
- Maryland · Federal
Claudia Cubas
Immigration Judge · Hyattsville Immigration Court
Historical EOIR data
Outcomes at a glance
- Total outcomes
- 2,813
- Relief granted
- 531 18.9%
- Denied / removal ordered
- 895 31.8%
- Other / procedural
- 1,387 49.3%
National comparison for this selection: 9,249,024 outcomes; 10.0% relief granted; 52.0% denied / removal ordered; 38.0% other / procedural.
Methodology and sources
These are proceeding outcomes, not asylum application statistics. Completion years use EOIR COMP_DATE; 2026 contains partial-year data. Relief granted, denied / removal ordered and other / procedural exhaust the recorded outcomes. Groups of one are included. Historical outcomes do not establish a current assignment. Counts describe recorded cases and do not predict an individual's result.
Official EOIR case data · Source date: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:14:27 GMT
Biography
Professional career
- Claudia R. Cubas is an Immigration Judge at the Hyattsville, Maryland Immigration Court, appointed in March 2022, with a record of granting asylum in 78.3% of cases from FY 2021–2026
- Appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to the Hyattsville Immigration Court in March 2022
- Also an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow (2009–2011) and an attorney in private practice (2008–2009)
Education
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law — J.D. (2008)
- University of St. Thomas, Houston — B.A. (2005)
Additional information
- Before joining the judiciary, she held the role of Litigation Director at the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition in Washington, D.C. (2018–2022), with prior roles as Senior Program Director, Program Director, Supervising Attorney, and Staff Attorney.
- Judge Cubas’s record shows a consistently high grant rate, which may reflect her approach to asylum adjudication and the nature of cases heard at Hyattsville
- While denial rates vary by judge, they are influenced by judicial philosophy, case mix, detention status, and policy changes.
- She is a member of the Maryland State Bar
Sources
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