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The 2026-07-01 snapshot shows a 10.5% historical asylum grant rate for Houston, TX Immigration Court, based on 17,314 grants and 146,987 denials (164,301 decided outcomes).
The Houston, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 10.5% across 164,301 decided cases. The court has 36 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Houston, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 10.5% 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 Peterson, William C. (26,750 total cases), Law, Philip S. (20,188 total cases), and Brown, Robert (19,057 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (17,657 decided, 1.3% grant rate), Guatemala (7,913 decided, 0.8% grant rate), and Mexico (6,689 decided, 8.0% 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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This profile ranks #10 by published decided outcomes among 73 courts with at least 5,000 decisions (164,301 outcomes).
Its 10.5% historical rate is about the same as the 10.5% median for those 73 courts.
The largest published nationality row is Honduras: 17,657 decisions and a 1.3% grant rate in the nationality subset's stated scope.
These are descriptive historical aggregates. Court mix, judge assignment, representation, case facts, procedural posture, and changes in law are not controlled here, so the comparisons cannot predict an individual case.
Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Houston, TX Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 1 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peterson, William C. | 4.0% | 986 | 23,389 | 24,375 |
| Law, Philip S. | 17.5% | 2,101 | 9,883 | 11,984 |
| Brown, Robert | 14.8% | 2,083 | 11,956 | 14,039 |
| Greenstein, Saul E. | 5.3% | 870 | 15,556 | 16,426 |
| Zimmer, William K. | 21.7% | 2,455 | 8,849 | 11,304 |
| Endelman, Gary E. | 6.0% | 634 | 9,897 | 10,531 |
| Bhagat, Nimmo | 7.1% | 708 | 9,296 | 10,004 |
| Yam, Mimi | 17.5% | 1,495 | 7,028 | 8,523 |
| Luis, Lisa | 5.6% | 439 | 7,429 | 7,868 |
| Picos, Georgina M. | 5.6% | 373 | 6,282 | 6,655 |
| Gemoets, Marcos | 4.3% | 271 | 5,971 | 6,242 |
| Harris, Monique | 6.2% | 342 | 5,168 | 5,510 |
| Brown, Sam, IV | 2.5% | 138 | 5,494 | 5,632 |
| Khan, Anwer A. | 3.7% | 186 | 4,906 | 5,092 |
| Nguyen, Bao Q. | 6.9% | 301 | 4,088 | 4,389 |
| Kinnicutt, Daniel P. | 3.0% | 52 | 1,700 | 1,752 |
| Ramos, Maritza S. | 3.4% | 121 | 3,446 | 3,567 |
| Wang, Lynn | 1.8% | 55 | 3,038 | 3,093 |
| Vail, Joseph | 29.2% | 648 | 1,571 | 2,219 |
| Gorman, Stephanie | 9.8% | 217 | 1,997 | 2,214 |
| Hartnett, Sarah | 4.0% | 76 | 1,819 | 1,895 |
| Tida, Abdias E. | 3.3% | 55 | 1,606 | 1,661 |
| FENELON, ZAHRA JIVANI | 2.7% | 44 | 1,563 | 1,607 |
| Hughes, Erica | 3.6% | 45 | 1,213 | 1,258 |
| Mcguirk, Erica J. | 2.1% | 23 | 1,093 | 1,116 |
| Lucic, Nicholas B. | 0.5% | 4 | 731 | 735 |
| Greenbaum, Scott V. | 0.8% | 5 | 600 | 605 |
| Marks, Stephanie J. | 22.2% | 95 | 332 | 427 |
| Buras, Kevin N. | 0.2% | 1 | 457 | 458 |
| Archuleta, Judy | 6.6% | 31 | 440 | 471 |
| Castrolugo, Elisa | 4.9% | 18 | 350 | 368 |
| Parikh, Kiera | 0.7% | 2 | 298 | 300 |
| Robinson, Jared | 3.1% | 5 | 157 | 162 |
| Hines Jr, Glen Ray. | 13.6% | 12 | 76 | 88 |
| Martin, Lionel C. | 3.7% | 5 | 129 | 134 |
| Jaroch, Brandon | 1.1% | 1 | 86 | 87 |
Roster entries without a usable profile denominator: 2000, M. Suarez, Visiting Judge 15. They are excluded from the rate table above.
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honduras | 1.3% | 225 | 17,432 | 17,657 |
| Guatemala | 0.8% | 60 | 7,853 | 7,913 |
| Mexico | 8.0% | 536 | 6,153 | 6,689 |
| El Salvador | 3.1% | 195 | 6,183 | 6,378 |
| Venezuela | 12.0% | 371 | 2,729 | 3,100 |
| Nicaragua | 5.3% | 120 | 2,155 | 2,275 |
| Colombia | 1.6% | 25 | 1,510 | 1,535 |
| Cuba | 13.2% | 164 | 1,083 | 1,247 |
| Nigeria | 29.0% | 113 | 277 | 390 |
| Ecuador | 1.6% | 4 | 241 | 245 |
| Peru | 0.5% | 1 | 211 | 212 |
| Turkey | 26.3% | 51 | 143 | 194 |
| China | 40.9% | 70 | 101 | 171 |
| India | 20.4% | 28 | 109 | 137 |
| Dominican Republic | 1.5% | 2 | 132 | 134 |
| Pakistan | 48.7% | 58 | 61 | 119 |
| Romania | 4.4% | 4 | 87 | 91 |
| Iraq | 66.1% | 39 | 20 | 59 |
| Jordan | 17.0% | 8 | 39 | 47 |
| Belize | 6.5% | 3 | 43 | 46 |
| Sri Lanka | 9.3% | 4 | 39 | 43 |
| Brazil | 4.9% | 2 | 39 | 41 |
| Vietnam | 41.5% | 17 | 24 | 41 |
| Cameroon | 48.8% | 20 | 21 | 41 |
| Afghanistan | 2.8% | 1 | 35 | 36 |
| Kenya | 29.6% | 8 | 19 | 27 |
| Haiti | 4.3% | 1 | 22 | 23 |
| Angola | 4.5% | 1 | 21 | 22 |
| Senegal | 0.0% | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| Syria | 65.0% | 13 | 7 | 20 |
| Chile | 0.0% | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| Iran | 43.8% | 7 | 9 | 16 |
| Russia | 31.2% | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| Bangladesh | 26.7% | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| Lebanon | 0.0% | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Egypt | 69.2% | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| Ethiopia | 27.3% | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| Jamaica | 63.6% | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 0.0% | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Kazakhstan | 50.0% | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Palestine | 42.9% | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Congo | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Panama | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Libya | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Holland | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Tanzania | 50.0% | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Sudan | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Trinidad And Tobago | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Canada | 60.0% | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Zimbabwe | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Mauritania | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Burkina Faso | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Philippines | 33.3% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Ukraine | 33.3% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Costa Rica | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |