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The Hartford, CT Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 0.9% across 17,515 decided cases. The court has 10 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Hartford, CT Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 0.9% 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. (28,488 total cases), Morris, Daniel A. (12,810 total cases), and Verrillo, Philip (8,093 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Brazil (3,341 decided, 2.4% grant rate), Guatemala (3,219 decided, 9.5% grant rate), and Ecuador (3,211 decided, 9.1% 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 2026-05-08. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straus, Michael W. | 10.6% | 674 | 5,699 | 6,373 |
| Morris, Daniel A. | 6.6% | 329 | 4,626 | 4,955 |
| Verrillo, Philip | 27.2% | 478 | 1,279 | 1,757 |
| D'Ambrosio, Billino W | 24.8% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Munson, Angela | 5.9% | 152 | 2,411 | 2,563 |
| Doolittle, Theodore | 8.0% | 156 | 1,785 | 1,941 |
| Marple, Harriet B. | 31.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Goulding, Jonathan | 14.3% | 101 | 605 | 706 |
| Bennett, Justin | 42.4% | 14 | 19 | 33 |
| Visiting Judge 17 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2.4% | 81 | 3,260 | 3,341 |
| Guatemala | 9.5% | 305 | 2,914 | 3,219 |
| Ecuador | 9.1% | 291 | 2,920 | 3,211 |
| Honduras | 9.2% | 173 | 1,714 | 1,887 |
| Nicaragua | 5.1% | 74 | 1,384 | 1,458 |
| Peru | 6.3% | 57 | 849 | 906 |
| Colombia | 10.9% | 70 | 571 | 641 |
| El Salvador | 16.3% | 82 | 421 | 503 |
| Mexico | 22.7% | 100 | 341 | 441 |
| Venezuela | 21.1% | 76 | 284 | 360 |
| Haiti | 3.7% | 11 | 289 | 300 |
| Dominican Republic | 5.2% | 12 | 220 | 232 |
| Jamaica | 27.0% | 55 | 149 | 204 |
| Turkey | 58.7% | 91 | 64 | 155 |
| India | 40.8% | 31 | 45 | 76 |
| Pakistan | 75.4% | 43 | 14 | 57 |
| Ghana | 50.0% | 25 | 25 | 50 |
| Nigeria | 61.9% | 26 | 16 | 42 |
| Bangladesh | 64.9% | 24 | 13 | 37 |
| Russia | 75.0% | 27 | 9 | 36 |
| China | 51.6% | 16 | 15 | 31 |
| Afghanistan | 22.6% | 7 | 24 | 31 |
| Costa Rica | 3.3% | 1 | 29 | 30 |
| Chile | 0.0% | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| Sri Lanka | 41.7% | 10 | 14 | 24 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 69.6% | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| Albania | 50.0% | 11 | 11 | 22 |
| Libya | 21.1% | 4 | 15 | 19 |
| Congo | 55.6% | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| Cuba | 38.9% | 7 | 11 | 18 |
| Dominica | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| Ukraine | 86.7% | 13 | 2 | 15 |
| Egypt | 100.0% | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| Poland | 73.3% | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Paraguay | 0.0% | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Philippines | 57.1% | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Guinea | 42.9% | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Argentina | 57.1% | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Jordan | 16.7% | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Syria | 83.3% | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Uganda | 100.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |