New Orleans, LA Immigration Court

The New Orleans, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 8.3% 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 La Rocca, Joseph B. (20,936 total cases), Marquez, Charlotte S. (14,385 total cases), and Marsteller, Eric W. (12,684 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Honduras (14,526 decided, 2.6% grant rate), Guatemala (6,053 decided, 1.3% grant rate), and Nicaragua (4,348 decided, 12.7% 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 New Orleans, LA Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 404 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:

LA — New Orleans, Metairie, Monroe, Baton Rouge, Hammond, Shreveport, Slidell, Covington, Gretna, Kenner, Lake Charles, New Iberia, Ruston, West Monroe, Acme and 263 more cities

MS — Gulfport, Jackson, Clinton, Meridian, Bailey, Bassfield, Biloxi, Bude, Carson, Centreville, Clara, Collinsville, Conehatta, Crosby, D Lo and 60 more cities

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