15 judges · AZ
The Phoenix, AZ Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 19.4% across 64,397 decided cases. The court has 15 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Phoenix, AZ Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 19.4% 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 Freerks, Lamonte S. (30,160 total cases), Richardson, John W. (28,217 total cases), and Sharda, Munish (8,940 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (12,926 decided, 9.2% grant rate), Guatemala (3,861 decided, 1.6% grant rate), and Venezuela (2,299 decided, 11.6% 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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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freerks, Lamonte S. | 12.5% | 3,142 | 21,904 | 25,046 |
| Richardson, John W. | 20.9% | 4,781 | 18,089 | 22,870 |
| Sharda, Munish | 6.8% | 468 | 6,398 | 6,866 |
| Hollis, Wendell A. | 36.0% | 1,908 | 3,397 | 5,305 |
| Cortes, John W. | 8.7% | 446 | 4,692 | 5,138 |
| Gaz, Jennifer I. | 9.7% | 424 | 3,957 | 4,381 |
| Habich, Paul M. | 11.7% | 503 | 3,798 | 4,301 |
| Arellano, Silvia R. | 11.0% | 452 | 3,661 | 4,113 |
| Cottor, Elizabeth A | 8.4% | 308 | 3,377 | 3,685 |
| Guerrero, Marni | 8.2% | 259 | 2,881 | 3,140 |
| Karlen, Melissa Beth | 10.7% | 316 | 2,635 | 2,951 |
| Imburgia, Joseph S. | 4.3% | 131 | 2,951 | 3,082 |
| Josephson, Kenneth | 15.3% | 23 | 127 | 150 |
| Zhang, Xinzhe | 3.7% | 5 | 131 | 136 |
| Kuipers, Benjamin | 5.4% | 6 | 105 | 111 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 9.2% | 1,192 | 11,734 | 12,926 |
| Guatemala | 1.6% | 63 | 3,798 | 3,861 |
| Venezuela | 11.6% | 266 | 2,033 | 2,299 |
| Honduras | 1.7% | 26 | 1,518 | 1,544 |
| Colombia | 1.9% | 21 | 1,060 | 1,081 |
| Nicaragua | 6.5% | 59 | 849 | 908 |
| Cuba | 27.4% | 129 | 341 | 470 |
| El Salvador | 4.1% | 18 | 419 | 437 |
| Romania | 8.1% | 24 | 274 | 298 |
| Ecuador | 1.2% | 3 | 238 | 241 |
| Peru | 1.7% | 4 | 237 | 241 |
| Turkey | 8.2% | 10 | 112 | 122 |
| Russia | 75.9% | 63 | 20 | 83 |
| Afghanistan | 28.4% | 23 | 58 | 81 |
| Haiti | 1.3% | 1 | 74 | 75 |
| China | 46.3% | 31 | 36 | 67 |
| Cameroon | 63.8% | 37 | 21 | 58 |
| Iraq | 71.4% | 40 | 16 | 56 |
| India | 19.6% | 10 | 41 | 51 |
| Dominican Republic | 2.1% | 1 | 47 | 48 |
| Jamaica | 13.0% | 6 | 40 | 46 |
| Kenya | 58.1% | 25 | 18 | 43 |
| Nigeria | 40.5% | 17 | 25 | 42 |
| Brazil | 17.1% | 6 | 29 | 35 |
| Rwanda | 51.7% | 15 | 14 | 29 |
| Philippines | 23.1% | 6 | 20 | 26 |
| Guinea | 15.0% | 3 | 17 | 20 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 21.1% | 4 | 15 | 19 |
| Iran | 83.3% | 15 | 3 | 18 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| Pakistan | 15.4% | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| Panama | 0.0% | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| Egypt | 80.0% | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| Somalia | 12.5% | 1 | 7 | 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 |
| Argentina | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Chile | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Bangladesh | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Jordan | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Senegal | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Kuwait | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Morocco | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Bulgaria | 100.0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |