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Phoenix, AZ Immigration Court

10 judges · AZ

2.3%
Court Approval Rate
1,986
Granted
19,490
Denied
10
Judges

The Phoenix, AZ Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 2.3% across 21,476 decided cases. The court has 10 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

Judges at This Court

JudgeApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Freerks, Lamonte S. 18.6% 232 1,018 1,250
Richardson, John W. 20.9% 0 0 0
Hollis, Wendell A. 36.0% 0 0 0
Arellano, Silvia R. 100.0% 3 0 3
Gaz, Jennifer I. 9.6% 274 2,594 2,868
Cottor, Elizabeth A 10.0% 254 2,288 2,542
Imburgia, Joseph S. 3.4% 101 2,866 2,967
Guerrero, Marni 6.7% 149 2,073 2,222
Karlen, Melissa Beth 11.1% 257 2,048 2,305
Josephson, Kenneth 11.7% 12 91 103

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Mexico 10.0% 1,104 9,953 11,057
Guatemala 1.7% 58 3,449 3,507
Venezuela 16.2% 265 1,367 1,632
Honduras 1.7% 23 1,336 1,359
Colombia 2.5% 21 828 849
Nicaragua 7.2% 59 761 820
El Salvador 4.6% 17 351 368
Cuba 24.4% 86 266 352
Romania 8.5% 23 247 270
Peru 1.8% 4 213 217
Ecuador 1.9% 3 159 162
Turkey 9.0% 10 101 111
Afghanistan 24.0% 18 57 75
Russia 80.0% 56 14 70
China 47.6% 30 33 63
Haiti 1.8% 1 56 57
Iraq 71.4% 40 16 56
India 21.3% 10 37 47
Cameroon 77.3% 34 10 44
Jamaica 15.4% 6 33 39
Dominican Republic 2.6% 1 38 39
Kenya 63.2% 24 14 38
Nigeria 43.2% 16 21 37
Rwanda 57.7% 15 11 26
Brazil 20.8% 5 19 24
Philippines 27.3% 6 16 22
Iran 83.3% 15 3 18
Democratic Republic Of Congo 23.5% 4 13 17
Pakistan 15.4% 2 11 13
Belize 0.0% 0 12 12
Egypt 80.0% 8 2 10
Bolivia 0.0% 0 8 8
Burundi 28.6% 2 5 7
Israel 33.3% 2 4 6
Vietnam 50.0% 3 3 6
Bosnia-Herzegovina 80.0% 4 1 5
Congo 100.0% 5 0 5
Panama 0.0% 0 5 5
Guinea 40.0% 2 3 5
Argentina 0.0% 0 5 5
Bangladesh 0.0% 0 4 4
Jordan 50.0% 2 2 4
Kuwait 0.0% 0 3 3
Bulgaria 100.0% 2 0 2

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