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The New York Varick 5th, NY Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 21.5% across 67,905 decided cases. The court has 24 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The New York Varick 5th, NY Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 21.5% 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 Page, Alan L. (12,482 total cases), Mulligan, Thomas J. (8,863 total cases), and Ling, Lisa W. (5,857 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Ecuador (9,548 decided, 12.0% grant rate), Honduras (4,351 decided, 9.7% grant rate), and El Salvador (3,318 decided, 14.7% 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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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page, Alan L. | 16.9% | 1,769 | 8,719 | 10,488 |
| Mulligan, Thomas J. | 44.1% | 3,310 | 4,197 | 7,507 |
| Ling, Lisa W. | 29.0% | 1,498 | 3,662 | 5,160 |
| Cohen, Howard I. | 52.2% | 2,826 | 2,585 | 5,411 |
| Burnham, Shayne R. | 26.0% | 1,066 | 3,036 | 4,102 |
| Kolbe, Margaret | 38.6% | 1,279 | 2,033 | 3,312 |
| Reid, Dara | 11.5% | 410 | 3,157 | 3,567 |
| Averwater, Richard J. | 7.9% | 250 | 2,926 | 3,176 |
| Conroy, Charles R. | 16.0% | 492 | 2,586 | 3,078 |
| Prieto, Francisco R. | 14.4% | 368 | 2,188 | 2,556 |
| DeCure, John | 11.5% | 306 | 2,361 | 2,667 |
| Mungoven, Thomas | 27.1% | 631 | 1,697 | 2,328 |
| Norkin, David | 23.5% | 397 | 1,295 | 1,692 |
| Degaeto, Anthony M. | 42.3% | 274 | 374 | 648 |
| Wedderburn, Wendy | 12.4% | 148 | 1,044 | 1,192 |
| Billings, Lucy | 24.7% | 257 | 782 | 1,039 |
| Durkin, Jennifer | 24.9% | 253 | 763 | 1,016 |
| ul-Haq, Ubaid | 16.3% | 68 | 348 | 416 |
| Buchanan, Patricia L. | 12.6% | 53 | 366 | 419 |
| London, Charlesa E. | 23.3% | 94 | 310 | 404 |
| Lopez, Silvia | 26.9% | 99 | 269 | 368 |
| Aliferis, Themistoklis | 27.1% | 91 | 245 | 336 |
| Lalor, Kieran | 2.2% | 6 | 268 | 274 |
| Bowen, Denise | 0.0% | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 12.0% | 1,143 | 8,405 | 9,548 |
| Honduras | 9.7% | 421 | 3,930 | 4,351 |
| El Salvador | 14.7% | 488 | 2,830 | 3,318 |
| Guatemala | 7.9% | 214 | 2,484 | 2,698 |
| Colombia | 13.0% | 320 | 2,134 | 2,454 |
| Peru | 10.4% | 210 | 1,817 | 2,027 |
| India | 51.3% | 921 | 874 | 1,795 |
| China | 71.1% | 1,022 | 415 | 1,437 |
| Nicaragua | 17.8% | 249 | 1,149 | 1,398 |
| Turkey | 33.5% | 269 | 534 | 803 |
| Venezuela | 30.0% | 235 | 549 | 784 |
| Mexico | 17.5% | 122 | 577 | 699 |
| Dominican Republic | 9.7% | 59 | 547 | 606 |
| Haiti | 8.4% | 50 | 545 | 595 |
| Russia | 83.3% | 493 | 99 | 592 |
| Bangladesh | 72.4% | 270 | 103 | 373 |
| Uzbekistan | 59.3% | 182 | 125 | 307 |
| Jamaica | 33.1% | 89 | 180 | 269 |
| Nepal | 72.0% | 157 | 61 | 218 |
| Pakistan | 52.3% | 104 | 95 | 199 |
| Georgia | 68.6% | 116 | 53 | 169 |
| Brazil | 10.2% | 17 | 149 | 166 |
| Sri Lanka | 32.2% | 29 | 61 | 90 |
| Guinea | 78.6% | 66 | 18 | 84 |
| Albania | 92.4% | 73 | 6 | 79 |
| Chile | 16.0% | 12 | 63 | 75 |
| Egypt | 69.8% | 44 | 19 | 63 |
| Nigeria | 43.6% | 24 | 31 | 55 |
| Guyana | 34.0% | 16 | 31 | 47 |
| Ghana | 81.4% | 35 | 8 | 43 |
| Belize | 2.4% | 1 | 40 | 41 |
| Poland | 61.1% | 22 | 14 | 36 |
| Senegal | 41.7% | 15 | 21 | 36 |
| Costa Rica | 6.2% | 2 | 30 | 32 |
| Turkmenistan | 35.5% | 11 | 20 | 31 |
| Unknown Nationality | 67.9% | 19 | 9 | 28 |
| Ukraine | 88.9% | 24 | 3 | 27 |
| Kazakhstan | 73.1% | 19 | 7 | 26 |
| Vietnam | 42.3% | 11 | 15 | 26 |
| Cameroon | 92.0% | 23 | 2 | 25 |
| Soviet Union | 75.0% | 18 | 6 | 24 |
| Belarus | 91.7% | 22 | 2 | 24 |
| Paraguay | 8.7% | 2 | 21 | 23 |
| Cuba | 45.5% | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| Trinidad And Tobago | 33.3% | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| Romania | 38.1% | 8 | 13 | 21 |
| Dominica | 0.0% | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| Burkina Faso | 78.9% | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| Afghanistan | 68.4% | 13 | 6 | 19 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 100.0% | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| Panama | 5.6% | 1 | 17 | 18 |
| Bermuda | 41.2% | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| Mali | 100.0% | 16 | 0 | 16 |
| United Kingdom | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| Philippines | 46.7% | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| Argentina | 20.0% | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| Comoro Islands | 100.0% | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Germany | 60.0% | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| Israel | 22.2% | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 100.0% | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Burma (Myanmar) | 100.0% | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| Singapore | 85.7% | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Iran | 57.1% | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Indonesia | 83.3% | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Mauritania | 83.3% | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Togo | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Ireland | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| EO | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Macedonia | 100.0% | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Malaysia | 66.7% | 2 | 1 | 3 |