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The Salt Lake City, UT Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 3.9% across 17,541 decided cases. The court has 7 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Salt Lake City, UT Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 3.9% 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 Nixon, William L. (10,022 total cases), Greer, Christopher M. (8,357 total cases), and Truman, Phillip M. (6,506 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Venezuela (6,361 decided, 53.4% grant rate), Mexico (3,519 decided, 9.0% grant rate), and Peru (2,293 decided, 1.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nixon, William L. | 6.9% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greer, Christopher M. | 21.5% | 1,290 | 4,714 | 6,004 |
| Truman, Phillip M. | 25.4% | 1,055 | 3,099 | 4,154 |
| Pead, Dustin | 6.3% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nelson, Douglas Donaldson | 19.0% | 298 | 1,268 | 1,566 |
| Robertson, David | 6.6% | 21 | 298 | 319 |
| Andrasko, Matthew | 2.8% | 3 | 103 | 106 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venezuela | 53.4% | 3,396 | 2,965 | 6,361 |
| Mexico | 9.0% | 316 | 3,203 | 3,519 |
| Peru | 1.1% | 26 | 2,267 | 2,293 |
| Colombia | 5.0% | 88 | 1,674 | 1,762 |
| Honduras | 2.6% | 28 | 1,063 | 1,091 |
| Guatemala | 4.6% | 45 | 941 | 986 |
| Nicaragua | 11.8% | 57 | 428 | 485 |
| El Salvador | 8.8% | 40 | 413 | 453 |
| Ecuador | 7.5% | 9 | 111 | 120 |
| Russia | 70.0% | 49 | 21 | 70 |
| Cuba | 39.0% | 23 | 36 | 59 |
| Brazil | 9.1% | 5 | 50 | 55 |
| Chile | 20.0% | 10 | 40 | 50 |
| China | 61.5% | 24 | 15 | 39 |
| Romania | 0.0% | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| Panama | 41.7% | 10 | 14 | 24 |
| India | 15.0% | 3 | 17 | 20 |
| Haiti | 0.0% | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| Dominican Republic | 6.7% | 1 | 14 | 15 |
| Turkey | 6.7% | 1 | 14 | 15 |
| Afghanistan | 8.3% | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| Iraq | 90.0% | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| Pakistan | 55.6% | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Costa Rica | 22.2% | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Argentina | 75.0% | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| Philippines | 14.3% | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| Nigeria | 100.0% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Germany | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Congo | 60.0% | 3 | 2 | 5 |