38 judges · TX
The Houston, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 10.5% across 164,301 decided cases. The court has 38 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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| 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 |
| 2000, M. Suarez | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Visiting Judge 15 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 |