20 judges · NC
The Charlotte, NC Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 1.3% across 67,166 decided cases. The court has 20 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Charlotte, NC Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 1.3% 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 Holmes-Simmons, Theresa (26,553 total cases), Lee, Amy T. (19,367 total cases), and Lopez-Enriquez, Maria (16,675 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (25,668 decided, 1.9% grant rate), Guatemala (14,445 decided, 1.8% grant rate), and Mexico (11,691 decided, 2.3% 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 2026-05-08. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes-Simmons, Theresa | 17.4% | 876 | 4,145 | 5,021 |
| Lee, Amy T. | 1.0% | 141 | 14,474 | 14,615 |
| Lopez-Enriquez, Maria | 1.9% | 175 | 9,233 | 9,408 |
| Nance, Jeffery R. | 1.1% | 138 | 12,618 | 12,756 |
| Pettinato, Barry J. | 9.9% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Couch, V. Stuart | 2.0% | 1 | 50 | 51 |
| Brown, Charlotte D. | 5.2% | 251 | 4,615 | 4,866 |
| Riggs, George W. | 5.7% | 70 | 1,160 | 1,230 |
| Palmer, Brian T. | 11.4% | 208 | 1,624 | 1,832 |
| Batko-Taylor, Abby Anna. | 6.4% | 98 | 1,428 | 1,526 |
| Terrien, Jeb | 14.4% | 186 | 1,108 | 1,294 |
| Mannion, Steve | 6.7% | 93 | 1,305 | 1,398 |
| Rainey, Zol | 4.7% | 56 | 1,145 | 1,201 |
| Purnell, Charles N. | 2.6% | 17 | 631 | 648 |
| Graulich, James C. | 10.4% | 57 | 492 | 549 |
| White, David | 3.2% | 18 | 545 | 563 |
| Stewart, Stephen | 9.1% | 34 | 339 | 373 |
| Mangoli, Vimala S. | 7.9% | 18 | 211 | 229 |
| Hayden, Michael | 18.1% | 15 | 68 | 83 |
| Phillips, Steven J. | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 1.9% | 476 | 25,192 | 25,668 |
| Guatemala | 1.8% | 266 | 14,179 | 14,445 |
| Mexico | 2.3% | 266 | 11,425 | 11,691 |
| El Salvador | 8.0% | 285 | 3,285 | 3,570 |
| Nicaragua | 2.7% | 66 | 2,366 | 2,432 |
| Venezuela | 7.1% | 170 | 2,216 | 2,386 |
| Brazil | 1.2% | 27 | 2,146 | 2,173 |
| Colombia | 2.0% | 38 | 1,859 | 1,897 |
| Ecuador | 2.9% | 14 | 462 | 476 |
| Peru | 1.2% | 5 | 410 | 415 |
| Haiti | 3.3% | 12 | 353 | 365 |
| Cuba | 10.4% | 20 | 172 | 192 |
| Russia | 52.0% | 91 | 84 | 175 |
| Dominican Republic | 4.4% | 6 | 130 | 136 |
| Senegal | 5.5% | 7 | 121 | 128 |
| India | 4.8% | 6 | 118 | 124 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 109 | 109 |
| Costa Rica | 2.6% | 2 | 76 | 78 |
| Jamaica | 18.6% | 11 | 48 | 59 |
| Vietnam | 11.8% | 6 | 45 | 51 |
| Chile | 2.1% | 1 | 46 | 47 |
| Turkey | 6.5% | 3 | 43 | 46 |
| China | 33.3% | 15 | 30 | 45 |
| Nigeria | 43.6% | 17 | 22 | 39 |
| Congo | 13.3% | 4 | 26 | 30 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 14.8% | 4 | 23 | 27 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| Ghana | 26.1% | 6 | 17 | 23 |
| Ukraine | 21.7% | 5 | 18 | 23 |
| Egypt | 68.2% | 15 | 7 | 22 |
| Panama | 0.0% | 0 | 22 | 22 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| Afghanistan | 10.0% | 2 | 18 | 20 |
| Belarus | 52.6% | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| Moldavia (Moldova) | 0.0% | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| Philippines | 29.4% | 5 | 12 | 17 |
| Cameroon | 31.2% | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| Mauritania | 12.5% | 2 | 14 | 16 |
| Kazakhstan | 35.7% | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| Syria | 100.0% | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| Argentina | 10.0% | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Kenya | 62.5% | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Azerbaijan | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Poland | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Germany | 100.0% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Dominica | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Jordan | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Mali | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Indonesia | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Zimbabwe | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Burkina Faso | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Holland | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Israel | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Gambia | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Uzbekistan | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Liberia | 50.0% | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Pakistan | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |