12 judges · WA
The Seattle, WA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 2.6% across 24,161 decided cases. The court has 12 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Seattle, WA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 2.6% 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 Josephson, Kenneth (41,587 total cases), Kandler, Edward R. (13,413 total cases), and Nail, William F., JR. (12,971 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (6,959 decided, 11.6% grant rate), Guatemala (3,254 decided, 9.8% grant rate), and Honduras (2,477 decided, 8.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Josephson, Kenneth | 19.3% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kandler, Edward R. | 24.5% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nail, William F., JR. | 20.2% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Parchert, Brett M. | 24.1% | 918 | 2,889 | 3,807 |
| Defonzo, Paul | 34.3% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mcseveney, Robert B.C. | 25.5% | 895 | 2,608 | 3,503 |
| Johnson, Shane E. | 15.5% | 394 | 2,153 | 2,547 |
| Sogabe, Kenneth | 10.8% | 330 | 2,721 | 3,051 |
| Windrow, Hayden E. | 24.8% | 617 | 1,869 | 2,486 |
| Sloan, Andrea | 41.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tisocco, Michael | 6.4% | 163 | 2,373 | 2,536 |
| Reyes, Susana | 24.8% | 284 | 859 | 1,143 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 11.6% | 810 | 6,149 | 6,959 |
| Guatemala | 9.8% | 319 | 2,935 | 3,254 |
| Honduras | 8.7% | 215 | 2,262 | 2,477 |
| Colombia | 7.5% | 116 | 1,432 | 1,548 |
| El Salvador | 19.9% | 285 | 1,146 | 1,431 |
| Venezuela | 10.7% | 131 | 1,098 | 1,229 |
| Brazil | 5.3% | 60 | 1,076 | 1,136 |
| Nicaragua | 11.9% | 133 | 986 | 1,119 |
| Russia | 69.8% | 606 | 262 | 868 |
| Peru | 8.5% | 56 | 606 | 662 |
| India | 27.1% | 155 | 418 | 573 |
| Ukraine | 66.7% | 186 | 93 | 279 |
| Afghanistan | 25.1% | 65 | 194 | 259 |
| Ecuador | 5.8% | 14 | 227 | 241 |
| Angola | 55.7% | 128 | 102 | 230 |
| China | 50.2% | 114 | 113 | 227 |
| Romania | 8.5% | 14 | 150 | 164 |
| Kenya | 43.3% | 58 | 76 | 134 |
| Eritrea | 69.2% | 83 | 37 | 120 |
| Ethiopia | 69.6% | 71 | 31 | 102 |
| Somalia | 52.6% | 50 | 45 | 95 |
| Moldavia (Moldova) | 39.5% | 30 | 46 | 76 |
| Cuba | 33.8% | 25 | 49 | 74 |
| Belarus | 81.9% | 59 | 13 | 72 |
| Turkey | 35.8% | 24 | 43 | 67 |
| Haiti | 11.5% | 7 | 54 | 61 |
| Vietnam | 50.0% | 27 | 27 | 54 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 57.8% | 26 | 19 | 45 |
| Pakistan | 68.2% | 30 | 14 | 44 |
| Senegal | 18.2% | 8 | 36 | 44 |
| Bolivia | 7.0% | 3 | 40 | 43 |
| Congo | 52.5% | 21 | 19 | 40 |
| Ghana | 51.3% | 20 | 19 | 39 |
| Canada | 9.1% | 3 | 30 | 33 |
| Gambia | 51.6% | 16 | 15 | 31 |
| Guinea | 38.5% | 10 | 16 | 26 |
| South Korea | 45.8% | 11 | 13 | 24 |
| Mongolia | 33.3% | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| Iraq | 82.6% | 19 | 4 | 23 |
| Libya | 33.3% | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| Kazakhstan | 83.3% | 15 | 3 | 18 |
| Philippines | 35.3% | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| Nigeria | 62.5% | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| Iran | 62.5% | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| Mauritania | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| United Kingdom | 7.7% | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| Uganda | 54.5% | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Indonesia | 45.5% | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Uzbekistan | 66.7% | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Azerbaijan | 57.1% | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Egypt | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Costa Rica | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Niger | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Djibouti | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Chile | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Cambodia | 75.0% | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Armenia | 100.0% | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Jamaica | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Jordan | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Cameroon | 100.0% | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Nepal | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Germany | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Sierra Leone | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |