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Otay Mesa, CA Immigration Court

6 judges · CA

20.3%
Court Approval Rate
1,181
Granted
4,635
Denied
6
Judges

The Otay Mesa, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 20.3% across 5,816 decided cases. The court has 6 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

How to Interpret This Court's Data

The Otay Mesa, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 20.3% 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 Depaolo, Zsa Zsa (18,675 total cases), Grande, Guy G. (2,756 total cases), and Robinson JR., Eugene H. (1,639 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (1,148 decided, 6.1% grant rate), Guatemala (279 decided, 4.3% grant rate), and Russia (272 decided, 62.5% 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 Otay Mesa, CA Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 1 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:

CA — San Diego

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Judges at This Court

JudgeApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Depaolo, Zsa Zsa 38.9% 6,501 10,208 16,709
Grande, Guy G. 18.5% 299 1,314 1,613
Robinson JR., Eugene H. 31.2% 306 674 980
Partida, Ana 22.2% 225 788 1,013
Sameit, Mark 19.2% 163 685 848
Dixon, Paula 19.3% 65 272 337

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Mexico 6.1% 70 1,078 1,148
Guatemala 4.3% 12 267 279
Russia 62.5% 170 102 272
Venezuela 8.8% 17 176 193
El Salvador 18.2% 32 144 176
Colombia 9.1% 13 130 143
Cameroon 56.6% 77 59 136
Honduras 5.6% 7 119 126
China 31.6% 36 78 114
Iran 64.4% 38 21 59
Jamaica 12.5% 7 49 56
Turkey 30.9% 17 38 55
Nicaragua 26.4% 14 39 53
Georgia 66.0% 35 18 53
India 10.9% 5 41 46
Uzbekistan 43.5% 20 26 46
Armenia 40.5% 17 25 42
Afghanistan 68.3% 28 13 41
Eritrea 60.5% 23 15 38
Cuba 37.8% 14 23 37
Ethiopia 55.9% 19 15 34
Peru 3.0% 1 32 33
Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) 61.3% 19 12 31
Ecuador 3.7% 1 26 27
Vietnam 42.3% 11 15 26
Haiti 30.4% 7 16 23
Romania 0.0% 0 22 22
Brazil 5.3% 1 18 19
Belize 11.8% 2 15 17
Somalia 41.2% 7 10 17
Ukraine 20.0% 3 12 15
Azerbaijan 28.6% 4 10 14
Kazakhstan 35.7% 5 9 14
Nepal 8.3% 1 11 12
Tajikistan (Tadzhik) 90.0% 9 1 10
Bangladesh 55.6% 5 4 9
Pakistan 44.4% 4 5 9
Yemen 25.0% 2 6 8
Dominican Republic 12.5% 1 7 8
Iraq 57.1% 4 3 7
Belarus 28.6% 2 5 7
Guinea 33.3% 2 4 6
Chile 0.0% 0 6 6
Sudan 33.3% 2 4 6
Jordan 40.0% 2 3 5
Morocco 25.0% 1 3 4
Syria 25.0% 1 3 4
Unknown Nationality 0.0% 0 3 3
Egypt 50.0% 1 1 2

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