32 judges · TX
The Dallas, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 0.4% across 75,200 decided cases. The court has 32 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Dallas, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 0.4% 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 Rogers, D. Anthony (41,996 total cases), Zuniga, Bertha A. (35,434 total cases), and Ozmun, Richard R. (33,732 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (21,523 decided, 0.4% grant rate), Mexico (16,079 decided, 2.7% grant rate), and Guatemala (11,742 decided, 0.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers, D. Anthony | 5.6% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Zuniga, Bertha A. | 9.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ozmun, Richard R. | 0.9% | 71 | 8,016 | 8,087 |
| Sims, Deitrich H. | 0.7% | 43 | 6,181 | 6,224 |
| Hughes, Edwin R. | 20.7% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Copeland, Cary H. | 18.8% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Baird, Michael P. | 2.1% | 9 | 411 | 420 |
| Naselow-Nahas, Tara | 2.4% | 120 | 4,866 | 4,986 |
| Davis-Gumbs, Xiomara Diana | 2.3% | 187 | 8,106 | 8,293 |
| Thielemann, Christopher J. | 1.6% | 145 | 8,986 | 9,131 |
| Perez-Guzman, Virginia | 11.6% | 183 | 1,389 | 1,572 |
| Kimball, R. Wayne | 4.3% | 38 | 839 | 877 |
| Dvorak, Charissa | 1.9% | 129 | 6,512 | 6,641 |
| Winfield, Jennifer | 2.6% | 134 | 5,084 | 5,218 |
| Ellison, Sarah M. | 4.2% | 186 | 4,256 | 4,442 |
| Irwin, Cait | 2.2% | 79 | 3,564 | 3,643 |
| Polivka, James F. | 1.8% | 58 | 3,089 | 3,147 |
| Hart, Brandon L. | 8.6% | 180 | 1,925 | 2,105 |
| Herrington, Robert | 4.2% | 112 | 2,540 | 2,652 |
| Martinez, Hugo R. | 5.1% | 100 | 1,871 | 1,971 |
| Weiss, Daniel H. | 3.7% | 13 | 334 | 347 |
| John-Baptiste, Allan | 6.5% | 114 | 1,637 | 1,751 |
| Shahan, Kenneth | 7.3% | 87 | 1,099 | 1,186 |
| Ferguson, Jason D. | 9.2% | 91 | 895 | 986 |
| Carreras-Amadeo, Monique | 25.1% | 131 | 391 | 522 |
| Brown, Anthony | 3.3% | 19 | 560 | 579 |
| Boudreau, Robert | 6.3% | 8 | 118 | 126 |
| Mitchell, Kyle | 11.8% | 6 | 45 | 51 |
| Dishman, Charles | 27.7% | 13 | 34 | 47 |
| Visiting Judge 9 | 0.0% | 0 | 65 | 65 |
| Green, David | 29.3% | 12 | 29 | 41 |
| Visiting Judge 10 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 0.4% | 94 | 21,429 | 21,523 |
| Mexico | 2.7% | 440 | 15,639 | 16,079 |
| Guatemala | 0.5% | 56 | 11,686 | 11,742 |
| Venezuela | 3.3% | 293 | 8,482 | 8,775 |
| El Salvador | 2.3% | 159 | 6,638 | 6,797 |
| Nicaragua | 0.9% | 30 | 3,269 | 3,299 |
| Colombia | 1.0% | 20 | 1,955 | 1,975 |
| Cuba | 11.5% | 88 | 678 | 766 |
| Peru | 0.9% | 5 | 548 | 553 |
| Nigeria | 26.9% | 148 | 402 | 550 |
| Romania | 0.8% | 4 | 483 | 487 |
| Ecuador | 1.0% | 4 | 396 | 400 |
| Turkey | 26.0% | 58 | 165 | 223 |
| India | 17.9% | 25 | 115 | 140 |
| China | 24.5% | 27 | 83 | 110 |
| Cameroon | 43.0% | 46 | 61 | 107 |
| Kenya | 29.9% | 26 | 61 | 87 |
| Egypt | 52.9% | 45 | 40 | 85 |
| Brazil | 5.9% | 5 | 80 | 85 |
| Sri Lanka | 7.4% | 6 | 75 | 81 |
| Haiti | 0.0% | 0 | 81 | 81 |
| Bolivia | 1.2% | 1 | 79 | 80 |
| Vietnam | 22.8% | 18 | 61 | 79 |
| Afghanistan | 38.7% | 29 | 46 | 75 |
| Jordan | 21.9% | 16 | 57 | 73 |
| Dominican Republic | 4.2% | 3 | 68 | 71 |
| Pakistan | 29.9% | 20 | 47 | 67 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 9.1% | 6 | 60 | 66 |
| Angola | 0.0% | 0 | 58 | 58 |
| Panama | 7.5% | 4 | 49 | 53 |
| Zimbabwe | 28.8% | 15 | 37 | 52 |
| Congo | 6.5% | 3 | 43 | 46 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 38 | 38 |
| Chile | 0.0% | 0 | 35 | 35 |
| Nepal | 21.2% | 7 | 26 | 33 |
| Russia | 57.1% | 16 | 12 | 28 |
| Holland | 0.0% | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| Bangladesh | 7.7% | 2 | 24 | 26 |
| Syria | 47.8% | 11 | 12 | 23 |
| South Korea | 36.4% | 8 | 14 | 22 |
| Iraq | 59.1% | 13 | 9 | 22 |
| Iran | 54.5% | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| Eritrea | 61.9% | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| Israel | 5.0% | 1 | 19 | 20 |
| Ethiopia | 81.2% | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| Costa Rica | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| Argentina | 26.7% | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| Ghana | 28.6% | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| Zambia | 21.4% | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Burundi | 45.5% | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Ukraine | 72.7% | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| Niger | 18.2% | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| Thailand | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country | 33.3% | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Canada | 25.0% | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Uganda | 42.9% | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Jamaica | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Senegal | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Philippines | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Malawi | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Mauritania | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Armenia | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| United Kingdom | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Lebanon | 100.0% | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Taiwan | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Tanzania | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Uruguay | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Burma (Myanmar) | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |