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Oakdale, LA Immigration Court

16 judges · LA

7.1%
Court Approval Rate
6,727
Granted
88,593
Denied
16
Judges

The Oakdale, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 7.1% across 95,320 decided cases. The court has 16 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

How to Interpret This Court's Data

The Oakdale, LA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 7.1% 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), Wiegand, Charles A., III (10,635 total cases), and Beatmann, Jerry A., SR. (7,612 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (5,062 decided, 1.4% grant rate), Guatemala (2,440 decided, 0.8% grant rate), and Honduras (1,941 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 2026-07-01. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.

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Areas Served by This Court

Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the Oakdale, LA Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 5 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:

LA — Basile, Oakdale, Oberlin, Pine Prairie, Winnfield

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Judges at This Court

JudgeApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Duck, John A., JR. 7.4% 2,888 36,265 39,153
Wiegand, Charles A., III 13.4% 1,337 8,620 9,957
Beatmann, Jerry A., SR. 1.6% 113 6,884 6,997
Bashore, Jacob D. 6.3% 193 2,880 3,073
Ashworth, Sherron 1.5% 31 2,013 2,044
Goodman, Cynthia 7.9% 104 1,205 1,309
Grimmer, Jared L. 1.8% 3 163 166
Chapman, Jaclyn C. 2.8% 4 141 145
Boudreau, Robert 5.0% 9 170 179
Williams, Benjamin D. 4.5% 5 106 111
Davis, Bryan 17.3% 22 105 127
Bennett, Justin 26.4% 19 53 72
Vo, Dat T. 4.5% 4 85 89
Holderfield, Shannon R. 0.0% 0 75 75
Hayes, Ylani A. 0.0% 0 26 26
Oakdale Detail Judge 1 11.8% 2 15 17

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Mexico 1.4% 73 4,989 5,062
Guatemala 0.8% 20 2,420 2,440
Honduras 1.6% 32 1,909 1,941
Venezuela 5.8% 55 895 950
Cuba 28.1% 259 663 922
Nicaragua 8.4% 72 785 857
El Salvador 3.4% 25 716 741
Colombia 1.3% 9 681 690
Ecuador 1.3% 8 605 613
India 1.6% 9 547 556
Russia 34.3% 188 360 548
China 5.3% 17 304 321
Georgia 9.4% 27 259 286
Turkey 13.6% 38 242 280
Uzbekistan 5.1% 14 260 274
Cameroon 46.7% 126 144 270
Dominican Republic 3.1% 7 222 229
Brazil 2.8% 6 211 217
Peru 2.8% 5 172 177
Haiti 3.2% 5 150 155
Jamaica 7.8% 10 119 129
Mauritania 8.4% 10 109 119
Senegal 4.9% 5 98 103
Nepal 1.1% 1 93 94
Afghanistan 35.3% 30 55 85
Tajikistan (Tadzhik) 7.3% 6 76 82
Egypt 5.4% 4 70 74
Armenia 11.4% 8 62 70
The Republic Of The Marshall Islands 0.0% 0 68 68
Bangladesh 7.7% 5 60 65
Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) 7.7% 5 60 65
Pakistan 1.7% 1 57 58
Eritrea 15.8% 9 48 57
Romania 0.0% 0 51 51
Vietnam 8.0% 4 46 50
Nigeria 6.4% 3 44 47
Iran 20.0% 9 36 45
Jordan 2.3% 1 42 43
Ethiopia 14.6% 6 35 41
Ghana 16.2% 6 31 37
Bolivia 5.6% 2 34 36
Somalia 14.3% 5 30 35
Guinea 2.9% 1 34 35
Kazakhstan 3.0% 1 32 33
Unknown Nationality 3.2% 1 30 31
Morocco 0.0% 0 29 29
Belize 14.3% 4 24 28
Sri Lanka 20.0% 5 20 25
Togo 6.7% 1 14 15
Bahamas 0.0% 0 14 14
Panama 7.7% 1 12 13
Chad 0.0% 0 13 13
Ukraine 25.0% 3 9 12
Syria 10.0% 1 9 10
Azerbaijan 20.0% 2 8 10
Philippines 10.0% 1 9 10
Yemen 0.0% 0 10 10
Angola 0.0% 0 9 9
Canada 0.0% 0 9 9
Indonesia 0.0% 0 9 9
Kenya 0.0% 0 8 8
Guyana 0.0% 0 8 8
Congo 0.0% 0 7 7
Chile 0.0% 0 7 7
Costa Rica 16.7% 1 5 6
Uganda 20.0% 1 4 5
Sudan 0.0% 0 5 5
Laos 0.0% 0 5 5
Liberia 0.0% 0 5 5
United Kingdom 40.0% 2 3 5
Cambodia 25.0% 1 3 4
Trinidad And Tobago 25.0% 1 3 4
South Africa 0.0% 0 4 4
Democratic Republic Of Congo 0.0% 0 3 3

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