12 judges · CT
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).
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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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:
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |