36 judges · TX
The Dallas, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 6.5% across 195,748 decided cases. The court has 36 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Dallas, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 6.5% 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 Nugent, James A. (42,207 total cases), Rogers, D. Anthony (41,996 total cases), and Ozmun, Richard R. (35,549 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (24,862 decided, 0.4% grant rate), Mexico (21,920 decided, 2.2% grant rate), and Venezuela (14,851 decided, 2.1% 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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Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Dallas, TX Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 1,527 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nugent, James A. | 3.0% | 1,137 | 36,909 | 38,046 |
| Rogers, D. Anthony | 5.6% | 2,033 | 34,065 | 36,098 |
| Ozmun, Richard R. | 3.7% | 1,117 | 29,069 | 30,186 |
| Zuniga, Bertha A. | 9.4% | 2,860 | 27,635 | 30,495 |
| Sims, Deitrich H. | 4.8% | 1,165 | 22,935 | 24,100 |
| Hughes, Edwin R. | 20.7% | 3,059 | 11,704 | 14,763 |
| Copeland, Cary H. | 18.8% | 2,316 | 9,997 | 12,313 |
| Baird, Michael P. | 5.1% | 572 | 10,587 | 11,159 |
| Davis-Gumbs, Xiomara Diana | 4.1% | 501 | 11,717 | 12,218 |
| Naselow-Nahas, Tara | 6.8% | 805 | 11,032 | 11,837 |
| Thielemann, Christopher J. | 2.0% | 225 | 10,928 | 11,153 |
| Perez-Guzman, Virginia | 16.1% | 1,090 | 5,684 | 6,774 |
| Kimball, R. Wayne | 5.4% | 398 | 6,940 | 7,338 |
| Dvorak, Charissa | 2.1% | 141 | 6,728 | 6,869 |
| Winfield, Jennifer | 2.1% | 151 | 7,069 | 7,220 |
| Ellison, Sarah M. | 5.4% | 261 | 4,532 | 4,793 |
| Irwin, Cait | 2.3% | 96 | 3,997 | 4,093 |
| Hart, Brandon L. | 7.3% | 266 | 3,394 | 3,660 |
| Herrington, Robert | 4.6% | 124 | 2,600 | 2,724 |
| Weiss, Daniel H. | 7.2% | 135 | 1,730 | 1,865 |
| Bogdan, Attila | 0.3% | 4 | 1,431 | 1,435 |
| Shahan, Kenneth | 6.4% | 93 | 1,363 | 1,456 |
| Fluke, Randall L. | 17.9% | 218 | 1,000 | 1,218 |
| Ferguson, Jason D. | 10.8% | 114 | 943 | 1,057 |
| Jones, Paul N. | 0.2% | 2 | 1,135 | 1,137 |
| Poore, John A. | 0.2% | 2 | 1,010 | 1,012 |
| Brown, Anthony | 3.2% | 20 | 597 | 617 |
| Gross, Kevin | 2.6% | 8 | 294 | 302 |
| Martin, Robert | 3.5% | 7 | 195 | 202 |
| Hermus, Jason | 1.5% | 3 | 197 | 200 |
| Douglas Richard J. | 0.0% | 0 | 136 | 136 |
| Visiting Judge 9 | 1.4% | 1 | 72 | 73 |
| Famada, Omar J. | 5.4% | 5 | 87 | 92 |
| Dictson, Deborah | 0.0% | 0 | 77 | 77 |
| Whelan, Barbara | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Visiting Judge 10 | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 0.4% | 98 | 24,764 | 24,862 |
| Mexico | 2.2% | 482 | 21,438 | 21,920 |
| Venezuela | 2.1% | 313 | 14,538 | 14,851 |
| Guatemala | 0.4% | 59 | 13,189 | 13,248 |
| El Salvador | 2.1% | 162 | 7,692 | 7,854 |
| Nicaragua | 0.7% | 31 | 4,112 | 4,143 |
| Colombia | 0.7% | 20 | 2,883 | 2,903 |
| Cuba | 9.2% | 100 | 987 | 1,087 |
| Peru | 0.6% | 5 | 808 | 813 |
| Nigeria | 22.5% | 156 | 536 | 692 |
| Romania | 0.7% | 4 | 596 | 600 |
| Ecuador | 0.7% | 4 | 560 | 564 |
| Turkey | 24.0% | 58 | 184 | 242 |
| India | 13.5% | 25 | 160 | 185 |
| Cameroon | 38.3% | 51 | 82 | 133 |
| China | 23.7% | 31 | 100 | 131 |
| Bolivia | 0.8% | 1 | 119 | 120 |
| Brazil | 5.4% | 6 | 106 | 112 |
| Haiti | 0.0% | 0 | 111 | 111 |
| Vietnam | 17.6% | 18 | 84 | 102 |
| Kenya | 28.6% | 28 | 70 | 98 |
| Egypt | 48.4% | 45 | 48 | 93 |
| Jordan | 18.3% | 17 | 76 | 93 |
| Sri Lanka | 6.7% | 6 | 84 | 90 |
| Afghanistan | 33.3% | 30 | 60 | 90 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 6.9% | 6 | 81 | 87 |
| Dominican Republic | 3.5% | 3 | 82 | 85 |
| Pakistan | 25.6% | 20 | 58 | 78 |
| Zimbabwe | 22.9% | 16 | 54 | 70 |
| Angola | 0.0% | 0 | 66 | 66 |
| Panama | 6.1% | 4 | 62 | 66 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 63 | 63 |
| Chile | 0.0% | 0 | 54 | 54 |
| Congo | 5.9% | 3 | 48 | 51 |
| Nepal | 14.9% | 7 | 40 | 47 |
| Russia | 47.1% | 16 | 18 | 34 |
| Syria | 34.4% | 11 | 21 | 32 |
| Iraq | 41.9% | 13 | 18 | 31 |
| Holland | 0.0% | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| Iran | 50.0% | 15 | 15 | 30 |
| Bangladesh | 7.7% | 2 | 24 | 26 |
| South Korea | 34.6% | 9 | 17 | 26 |
| Senegal | 0.0% | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| Israel | 8.0% | 2 | 23 | 25 |
| Ethiopia | 66.7% | 14 | 7 | 21 |
| Eritrea | 61.9% | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| Costa Rica | 0.0% | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| Argentina | 20.0% | 4 | 16 | 20 |
| Ghana | 20.0% | 4 | 16 | 20 |
| Zambia | 15.0% | 3 | 17 | 20 |
| Ukraine | 50.0% | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| Niger | 12.5% | 2 | 14 | 16 |
| Canada | 15.4% | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) | 7.7% | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| Uganda | 33.3% | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| Philippines | 8.3% | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| Burundi | 45.5% | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Jamaica | 18.2% | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| Thailand | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country | 33.3% | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Armenia | 11.1% | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Uzbekistan | 0.0% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Uruguay | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Saudi Arabia | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| South Africa | 33.3% | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Malawi | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Mauritania | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Hungary | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| United Kingdom | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Burma (Myanmar) | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Lebanon | 100.0% | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Tanzania | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Cambodia | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |