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The Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 12.4% across 73,579 decided cases. The court has 25 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 12.4% 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 Defillo, Irma Lopez (16,880 total cases), Tadal, Mirlande (14,356 total cases), and Chen, Shana W. (9,442 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (2,747 decided, 4.4% grant rate), Guatemala (1,767 decided, 4.2% grant rate), and Dominican Republic (1,477 decided, 6.4% 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 Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 1 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:
NJ — Elizabeth
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defillo, Irma Lopez | 12.8% | 1,177 | 7,983 | 9,160 |
| Tadal, Mirlande | 12.4% | 1,450 | 10,218 | 11,668 |
| Chen, Shana W. | 4.6% | 291 | 6,075 | 6,366 |
| Sease, Grace A. | 5.0% | 312 | 5,936 | 6,248 |
| Wilson, Tamar H. | 11.6% | 484 | 3,686 | 4,170 |
| Bailey, Richard | 12.9% | 286 | 1,932 | 2,218 |
| Panopoulos, Adam | 12.4% | 226 | 1,595 | 1,821 |
| Counihan, Brian | 1.7% | 25 | 1,430 | 1,455 |
| Ellington, John P. | 8.9% | 128 | 1,310 | 1,438 |
| Armstrong, Adrian N. | 13.0% | 79 | 528 | 607 |
| Hussey, Michael | 22.5% | 36 | 124 | 160 |
| Addicott, Jacob T. | 2.3% | 4 | 169 | 173 |
| Hawkes, Joshua | 2.6% | 5 | 190 | 195 |
| Engel, Michael C. | 8.8% | 8 | 83 | 91 |
| Combs, Corey | 0.0% | 0 | 80 | 80 |
| Quidley, Joshua D. | 0.0% | 0 | 82 | 82 |
| Gleich, Oren | 10.0% | 9 | 81 | 90 |
| Brown, Lory G. | 5.1% | 4 | 74 | 78 |
| Pepper, S. Kathleen | 51.1% | 23 | 22 | 45 |
| Shusted, Thomas | 0.0% | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| Dicamillo, Angelo J. | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Grant, Edward | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| York Visiting Judge 1 | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| York Visiting Judge 2 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| York Visiting Judge 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 4.4% | 120 | 2,627 | 2,747 |
| Guatemala | 4.2% | 75 | 1,692 | 1,767 |
| Dominican Republic | 6.4% | 94 | 1,383 | 1,477 |
| Honduras | 6.0% | 63 | 985 | 1,048 |
| Ecuador | 3.9% | 35 | 867 | 902 |
| El Salvador | 13.5% | 119 | 764 | 883 |
| Colombia | 6.4% | 35 | 509 | 544 |
| Venezuela | 8.8% | 40 | 415 | 455 |
| Brazil | 3.8% | 13 | 331 | 344 |
| Jamaica | 14.2% | 46 | 278 | 324 |
| Peru | 6.1% | 19 | 294 | 313 |
| Haiti | 16.0% | 43 | 226 | 269 |
| Nicaragua | 16.3% | 39 | 200 | 239 |
| India | 8.1% | 18 | 205 | 223 |
| China | 8.3% | 17 | 188 | 205 |
| Cuba | 16.8% | 33 | 164 | 197 |
| Uzbekistan | 17.7% | 29 | 135 | 164 |
| Russia | 27.0% | 33 | 89 | 122 |
| Nigeria | 24.8% | 29 | 88 | 117 |
| Turkey | 19.4% | 18 | 75 | 93 |
| Romania | 1.2% | 1 | 83 | 84 |
| Ghana | 23.2% | 19 | 63 | 82 |
| Georgia | 14.1% | 11 | 67 | 78 |
| Guinea | 15.9% | 11 | 58 | 69 |
| Mauritania | 20.9% | 14 | 53 | 67 |
| Costa Rica | 8.2% | 5 | 56 | 61 |
| Liberia | 28.3% | 17 | 43 | 60 |
| Pakistan | 12.3% | 7 | 50 | 57 |
| Egypt | 21.2% | 11 | 41 | 52 |
| Guyana | 19.6% | 10 | 41 | 51 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 14.3% | 7 | 42 | 49 |
| Senegal | 12.5% | 6 | 42 | 48 |
| Trinidad And Tobago | 13.0% | 6 | 40 | 46 |
| United Kingdom | 5.3% | 2 | 36 | 38 |
| Canada | 13.9% | 5 | 31 | 36 |
| Unknown Nationality | 6.1% | 2 | 31 | 33 |
| Sierra Leone | 31.2% | 10 | 22 | 32 |
| Ukraine | 11.1% | 3 | 24 | 27 |
| Bangladesh | 4.2% | 1 | 23 | 24 |
| Philippines | 17.4% | 4 | 19 | 23 |
| Cameroon | 22.7% | 5 | 17 | 22 |
| Vietnam | 27.3% | 6 | 16 | 22 |
| Jordan | 21.1% | 4 | 15 | 19 |
| Chile | 5.6% | 1 | 17 | 18 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 35.3% | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| Poland | 23.5% | 4 | 13 | 17 |
| Panama | 12.5% | 2 | 14 | 16 |
| Kenya | 13.3% | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| Belarus | 60.0% | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 28.6% | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| Burkina Faso | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| Bhutan | 8.3% | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| Armenia | 27.3% | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| Morocco | 44.4% | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Nepal | 11.1% | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Afghanistan | 22.2% | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Kazakhstan | 0.0% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Portugal | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Chad | 42.9% | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Azerbaijan | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Turkmenistan | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Albania | 66.7% | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Argentina | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| South Korea | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Mali | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Sudan | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Thailand | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Ireland | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Indonesia | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Algeria | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Iran | 33.3% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Dominica | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Uruguay | 33.3% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Gambia | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Israel | 50.0% | 1 | 1 | 2 |