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The 2026-07-01 snapshot shows a 5.1% historical asylum grant rate for Atlanta, GA Immigration Court, based on 6,225 grants and 116,539 denials (122,764 decided outcomes).
The Atlanta, GA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 5.1% across 122,764 decided cases. The court has 22 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Atlanta, GA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 5.1% in the current AsylumTracker dataset. Court-level statistics aggregate judges and cases assigned to that court, so the court average can differ sharply from any one judge's profile.
High-volume judge profiles at this court include Rast, G. M. (17,730 total cases), Houser, Wayne K., JR. (17,461 total cases), and Maldonado, Njeri B. (10,602 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Guatemala (19,305 decided, 0.8% grant rate), Mexico (13,804 decided, 2.2% grant rate), and Honduras (9,994 decided, 0.7% grant rate).
Asylum grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Procedural outcomes are separated so users can distinguish merits decisions from docket-management outcomes.
This page uses public EOIR records last updated 2026-07-01. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
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This profile ranks #13 by published decided outcomes among 73 courts with at least 5,000 decisions (122,764 outcomes).
Its 5.1% historical rate is 5.4 percentage points below the 10.5% median for those 73 courts.
The largest published nationality row is Guatemala: 19,305 decisions and a 0.8% grant rate in the nationality subset's stated scope.
These are descriptive historical aggregates. Court mix, judge assignment, representation, case facts, procedural posture, and changes in law are not controlled here, so the comparisons cannot predict an individual case.
Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Atlanta, GA Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 1,408 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:
AL — Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Huntsville, Gadsden, Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Florence, Athens, Bessemer, Cullman, Dothan, Jasper, Madison, Northport and 516 more cities
GA — Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, Marietta, Augusta, Athens, Columbus, Albany, Decatur, Valdosta, Alpharetta, Brunswick, Gainesville, Lawrenceville, Carrollton and 576 more cities
MS — Meridian
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rast, G. M. | 6.9% | 944 | 12,766 | 13,710 |
| Houser, Wayne K., JR. | 7.8% | 950 | 11,259 | 12,209 |
| Maldonado, Njeri B. | 1.8% | 157 | 8,799 | 8,956 |
| Chapman, Kevin Jerome. | 17.2% | 1,429 | 6,870 | 8,299 |
| Fisher, Ryan | 1.4% | 106 | 7,674 | 7,780 |
| Taylor, Philip P. | 0.9% | 59 | 6,516 | 6,575 |
| Doughty, Blake | 2.7% | 171 | 6,183 | 6,354 |
| Haer, Amy Fairchild | 1.9% | 112 | 5,706 | 5,818 |
| Smikle, Suzette | 1.4% | 80 | 5,791 | 5,871 |
| Murray, Winfield W. | 2.7% | 152 | 5,495 | 5,647 |
| Bell, Jennifer R. | 1.2% | 58 | 4,743 | 4,801 |
| Coaxum, Ghunise L. | 0.6% | 28 | 4,898 | 4,926 |
| Hewitt, Andrew | 1.5% | 32 | 2,149 | 2,181 |
| Johnston, Paul L. | 12.5% | 210 | 1,475 | 1,685 |
| Barr, Philip A. | 5.3% | 75 | 1,340 | 1,415 |
| Watson, Bryan D. | 13.2% | 103 | 680 | 783 |
| Redwood, Daniel J. | 15.9% | 31 | 164 | 195 |
| Stroberg, Kevin D. | 3.1% | 4 | 123 | 127 |
| Jeter, Kimberly | 7.4% | 13 | 163 | 176 |
| Pearson, Kyle A. | 3.1% | 3 | 94 | 97 |
| Gopaul, Donna S. | 0.0% | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| Owens, Alfredia | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Roster entries without a usable profile denominator: Visiting Judge 25. They are excluded from the rate table above.
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala | 0.8% | 158 | 19,147 | 19,305 |
| Mexico | 2.2% | 304 | 13,500 | 13,804 |
| Honduras | 0.7% | 67 | 9,927 | 9,994 |
| Venezuela | 3.2% | 192 | 5,760 | 5,952 |
| Nicaragua | 3.1% | 121 | 3,787 | 3,908 |
| Colombia | 1.3% | 35 | 2,612 | 2,647 |
| El Salvador | 3.7% | 94 | 2,458 | 2,552 |
| Peru | 1.5% | 16 | 1,026 | 1,042 |
| Brazil | 2.2% | 15 | 675 | 690 |
| India | 5.9% | 33 | 528 | 561 |
| Haiti | 1.1% | 6 | 526 | 532 |
| Cuba | 5.7% | 17 | 279 | 296 |
| Ecuador | 0.7% | 2 | 269 | 271 |
| Jamaica | 11.8% | 26 | 194 | 220 |
| Senegal | 6.9% | 15 | 203 | 218 |
| Turkey | 10.0% | 19 | 171 | 190 |
| Nigeria | 15.6% | 25 | 135 | 160 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.7% | 1 | 145 | 146 |
| Vietnam | 9.7% | 12 | 112 | 124 |
| Russia | 26.5% | 31 | 86 | 117 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 69 | 69 |
| Ghana | 20.6% | 14 | 54 | 68 |
| China | 36.9% | 24 | 41 | 65 |
| Guinea | 23.8% | 15 | 48 | 63 |
| Chile | 3.3% | 2 | 58 | 60 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 58 | 58 |
| Afghanistan | 15.7% | 8 | 43 | 51 |
| Kenya | 29.3% | 12 | 29 | 41 |
| Costa Rica | 4.9% | 2 | 39 | 41 |
| Panama | 8.3% | 3 | 33 | 36 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| Gambia | 24.2% | 8 | 25 | 33 |
| Cameroon | 36.7% | 11 | 19 | 30 |
| South Korea | 3.4% | 1 | 28 | 29 |
| Pakistan | 25.0% | 7 | 21 | 28 |
| Turkmenistan | 3.6% | 1 | 27 | 28 |
| Indonesia | 4.5% | 1 | 21 | 22 |
| Angola | 10.0% | 2 | 18 | 20 |
| Ethiopia | 52.6% | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| Mauritania | 0.0% | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| Iran | 29.4% | 5 | 12 | 17 |
| Bangladesh | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 0.0% | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| Jordan | 0.0% | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| Argentina | 8.3% | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| Sierra Leone | 10.0% | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Iraq | 30.0% | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Sri Lanka | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Liberia | 11.1% | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Mali | 22.2% | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Trinidad And Tobago | 50.0% | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Somalia | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Syria | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Sudan | 83.3% | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Kazakhstan | 83.3% | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Dominica | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Gabon | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Niger | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Belarus | 75.0% | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Germany | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Guyana | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Zimbabwe | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Canada | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |