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The Oakdale, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 2.9% across 17,413 decided cases. The court has 23 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Oakdale, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 2.9% 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 Duck, John A., JR. (43,037 total cases), Nugent, James A. (40,742 total cases), and Marsteller, Eric W. (11,824 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (4,445 decided, 1.3% grant rate), Guatemala (2,119 decided, 0.6% grant rate), and Honduras (1,710 decided, 1.6% 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 2026-05-08. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duck, John A., JR. | 6.0% | 34 | 529 | 563 |
| Nugent, James A. | 1.4% | 125 | 9,082 | 9,207 |
| Marsteller, Eric W. | 6.9% | 371 | 4,988 | 5,359 |
| Wiegand, Charles A., III | 13.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Beatmann, Jerry A., SR. | 1.6% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Visiting Judge 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| de Cardona, Lisa A. | 14.6% | 208 | 1,213 | 1,421 |
| Jovanovic, Adam | 1.6% | 47 | 2,911 | 2,958 |
| Bashore, Jacob D. | 5.7% | 140 | 2,296 | 2,436 |
| Laragy, W. Scott | 1.2% | 18 | 1,518 | 1,536 |
| Comans, Jamee E. | 0.5% | 9 | 1,954 | 1,963 |
| Ashworth, Sherron | 1.4% | 25 | 1,811 | 1,836 |
| Phan, Christopher | 11.2% | 204 | 1,615 | 1,819 |
| Goodman, Cynthia | 7.5% | 79 | 980 | 1,059 |
| Bergosh, Gary L. | 7.3% | 8 | 101 | 109 |
| Chaban, Roman | 1.0% | 1 | 102 | 103 |
| Davis, Bryan | 9.9% | 7 | 64 | 71 |
| Gallegos, Daniel J. | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Patten, Jack D. | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Williams, Benjamin D. | 0.0% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Oakdale Detail Judge 1 | 11.8% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sibert, Jeremy S. | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Training Ij For Miami | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1.3% | 57 | 4,388 | 4,445 |
| Guatemala | 0.6% | 12 | 2,107 | 2,119 |
| Honduras | 1.6% | 28 | 1,682 | 1,710 |
| Cuba | 29.9% | 256 | 601 | 857 |
| Venezuela | 6.2% | 51 | 766 | 817 |
| Nicaragua | 8.9% | 72 | 738 | 810 |
| El Salvador | 3.2% | 21 | 645 | 666 |
| Colombia | 1.4% | 9 | 638 | 647 |
| Ecuador | 1.0% | 6 | 568 | 574 |
| Russia | 34.6% | 185 | 349 | 534 |
| India | 1.7% | 9 | 510 | 519 |
| China | 5.1% | 15 | 279 | 294 |
| Georgia | 9.6% | 27 | 254 | 281 |
| Turkey | 13.2% | 36 | 237 | 273 |
| Cameroon | 46.8% | 126 | 143 | 269 |
| Uzbekistan | 5.2% | 14 | 255 | 269 |
| Dominican Republic | 2.9% | 6 | 201 | 207 |
| Brazil | 2.5% | 5 | 198 | 203 |
| Peru | 3.1% | 5 | 158 | 163 |
| Mauritania | 8.8% | 10 | 104 | 114 |
| Jamaica | 7.2% | 8 | 103 | 111 |
| Senegal | 4.0% | 4 | 96 | 100 |
| Haiti | 5.2% | 5 | 92 | 97 |
| Nepal | 1.1% | 1 | 90 | 91 |
| Afghanistan | 34.1% | 28 | 54 | 82 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 6.3% | 5 | 74 | 79 |
| Egypt | 4.3% | 3 | 66 | 69 |
| Armenia | 11.8% | 8 | 60 | 68 |
| The Republic Of The Marshall Islands | 0.0% | 0 | 66 | 66 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 8.3% | 5 | 55 | 60 |
| Bangladesh | 8.5% | 5 | 54 | 59 |
| Pakistan | 1.8% | 1 | 54 | 55 |
| Eritrea | 15.7% | 8 | 43 | 51 |
| Vietnam | 8.9% | 4 | 41 | 45 |
| Iran | 20.0% | 9 | 36 | 45 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 43 | 43 |
| Jordan | 2.4% | 1 | 40 | 41 |
| Ethiopia | 10.3% | 4 | 35 | 39 |
| Nigeria | 7.9% | 3 | 35 | 38 |
| Bolivia | 5.7% | 2 | 33 | 35 |
| Ghana | 17.6% | 6 | 28 | 34 |
| Kazakhstan | 3.1% | 1 | 31 | 32 |
| Guinea | 0.0% | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| Morocco | 0.0% | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| Sri Lanka | 20.0% | 5 | 20 | 25 |
| Belize | 16.0% | 4 | 21 | 25 |
| Somalia | 20.8% | 5 | 19 | 24 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| Chad | 0.0% | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Togo | 7.7% | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| Syria | 10.0% | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Bahamas | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yemen | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Azerbaijan | 20.0% | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| Panama | 11.1% | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| Ukraine | 25.0% | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Chile | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Congo | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Indonesia | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Kenya | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Angola | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Uganda | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Philippines | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Sudan | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Cambodia | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Canada | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Trinidad And Tobago | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Guyana | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Costa Rica | 33.3% | 1 | 2 | 3 |