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The 2026-07-01 snapshot shows a 6.5% historical asylum grant rate for Dallas, TX Immigration Court, based on 12,798 grants and 182,950 denials (195,748 decided outcomes).
The Dallas, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 6.5% across 195,748 decided cases. The court has 34 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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This profile ranks #5 by published decided outcomes among 73 courts with at least 5,000 decisions (195,748 outcomes).
Its 6.5% historical rate is 4.0 percentage points below the 10.5% median for those 73 courts.
The largest published nationality row is Honduras: 24,862 decisions and a 0.4% 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 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 |
| Famada, Omar J. | 5.4% | 5 | 87 | 92 |
| Dictson, Deborah | 0.0% | 0 | 77 | 77 |
| Whelan, Barbara | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Roster entries without a usable profile denominator: Visiting Judge 9, Visiting Judge 10. They are excluded from the rate table above.
| 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 |