14 judges · TX
The Harlingen, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 3.3% across 170,652 decided cases. The court has 14 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Harlingen, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 3.3% 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 Ayala, David (50,558 total cases), Zlatow, Jeffrey (24,364 total cases), and Gonzalez, Delia I. (9,036 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (9,600 decided, 0.2% grant rate), Mexico (5,273 decided, 8.0% grant rate), and Guatemala (3,596 decided, 0.1% 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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Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Harlingen, TX Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 92 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayala, David | 6.6% | 3,064 | 43,458 | 46,522 |
| Zlatow, Jeffrey | 6.4% | 1,249 | 18,359 | 19,608 |
| Gonzalez, Delia I. | 3.3% | 266 | 7,734 | 8,000 |
| Leonard, Joseph T. | 2.4% | 158 | 6,498 | 6,656 |
| Castaneda, Julian | 1.6% | 100 | 6,346 | 6,446 |
| Garcia, Melissa Joy | 3.8% | 72 | 1,835 | 1,907 |
| Pineda, Christopher | 0.7% | 18 | 2,731 | 2,749 |
| Gilbert, Daniel B. | 5.1% | 49 | 912 | 961 |
| Singh, Rantideva | 1.6% | 6 | 363 | 369 |
| Rodriguez, Adam | 0.3% | 1 | 288 | 289 |
| Galvao, Andrew | 0.9% | 2 | 217 | 219 |
| Ayala, David (Visiting Judge) | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Burman, Lawrence R. | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Louisville Visiting Judge 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 0.2% | 18 | 9,582 | 9,600 |
| Mexico | 8.0% | 424 | 4,849 | 5,273 |
| Guatemala | 0.1% | 5 | 3,591 | 3,596 |
| Nicaragua | 2.4% | 77 | 3,132 | 3,209 |
| El Salvador | 0.3% | 9 | 2,920 | 2,929 |
| Cuba | 9.1% | 119 | 1,192 | 1,311 |
| Ecuador | 0.0% | 0 | 1,261 | 1,261 |
| Venezuela | 15.6% | 128 | 693 | 821 |
| Colombia | 1.0% | 5 | 472 | 477 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.0% | 0 | 278 | 278 |
| Peru | 0.5% | 1 | 197 | 198 |
| Sri Lanka | 2.6% | 1 | 38 | 39 |
| Brazil | 5.6% | 1 | 17 | 18 |
| Haiti | 0.0% | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| China | 22.2% | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Costa Rica | 0.0% | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Eritrea | 100.0% | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Angola | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Cameroon | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| India | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Russia | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |