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Hartford, CT Immigration Court

12 judges · CT

16.9%
Court Approval Rate
8,271
Granted
40,675
Denied
12
Judges

The Hartford, CT Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 16.9% across 48,946 decided cases. The court has 12 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

How to Interpret This Court's Data

The Hartford, CT Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 16.9% 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 Straus, Michael W. (28,491 total cases), Morris, Daniel A. (13,515 total cases), and Verrillo, Philip (8,097 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Ecuador (3,903 decided, 7.7% grant rate), Brazil (3,776 decided, 2.2% grant rate), and Guatemala (3,492 decided, 8.8% 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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Areas Served by This Court

Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Hartford, CT Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 369 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:

CT — Bridgeport, Hartford, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Norwalk, West Hartford, Hamden, New Britain, Danbury, East Hartford, Fairfield, Greenwich, Manchester, Meriden and 227 more cities

MA — Springfield, Amherst, Chicopee, Northampton, Adams, Agawam, Ashley Falls, Barre, Becket, Belchertown, Berkshire, Blandford, Bondsville, Brimfield, Cheshire and 53 more cities

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Judges at This Court

JudgeApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Straus, Michael W. 16.7% 3,791 18,942 22,733
Morris, Daniel A. 9.9% 1,058 9,605 10,663
Verrillo, Philip 32.4% 1,865 3,889 5,754
Munson, Angela 4.6% 206 4,292 4,498
D'Ambrosio, Billino W 24.8% 1,216 3,685 4,901
Doolittle, Theodore 8.1% 160 1,819 1,979
Marple, Harriet B. 31.2% 353 780 1,133
Goulding, Jonathan 15.6% 115 623 738
Slitt, Andrew J. 3.7% 7 180 187
Sawwan, Sarah 0.0% 0 50 50
Nierva, Julian R. 0.0% 0 25 25
Visiting Judge 17 0.0% 0 0 0

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Ecuador 7.7% 301 3,602 3,903
Brazil 2.2% 84 3,692 3,776
Guatemala 8.8% 309 3,183 3,492
Honduras 8.4% 174 1,888 2,062
Nicaragua 4.8% 76 1,516 1,592
Peru 4.9% 58 1,130 1,188
Colombia 9.1% 73 731 804
El Salvador 15.1% 82 462 544
Mexico 20.0% 104 416 520
Venezuela 15.2% 76 424 500
Haiti 3.0% 11 352 363
Dominican Republic 3.9% 12 298 310
Jamaica 22.7% 58 198 256
Turkey 55.7% 98 78 176
India 36.5% 31 54 85
Pakistan 69.4% 43 19 62
Ghana 41.0% 25 36 61
Nigeria 61.9% 26 16 42
Bangladesh 64.9% 24 13 37
China 43.2% 16 21 37
Chile 0.0% 0 37 37
Costa Rica 2.7% 1 36 37
Russia 75.0% 27 9 36
Afghanistan 22.6% 7 24 31
Sri Lanka 34.5% 10 19 29
Dominica 0.0% 0 27 27
Democratic Republic Of Congo 69.6% 16 7 23
Albania 50.0% 11 11 22
Cuba 33.3% 7 14 21
Libya 21.1% 4 15 19
Congo 55.6% 10 8 18
Syria 31.2% 5 11 16
Ukraine 86.7% 13 2 15
Egypt 100.0% 15 0 15
Poland 73.3% 11 4 15
Romania 0.0% 0 14 14
Jordan 7.7% 1 12 13
Paraguay 0.0% 0 12 12
Philippines 57.1% 4 3 7
Guinea 42.9% 3 4 7
Argentina 57.1% 4 3 7
Vietnam 0.0% 0 6 6
Thailand 0.0% 0 5 5
Unknown Nationality 0.0% 0 2 2
Uganda 100.0% 1 0 1

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