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The 2026-07-01 snapshot shows a 29.6% historical asylum grant rate for West Los Angeles, CA Immigration Court, based on 108,186 grants and 257,786 denials (365,972 decided outcomes).
The West Los Angeles, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 29.6% across 365,972 decided cases. The court has 59 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The West Los Angeles, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 29.6% 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 Peters, Rose (27,492 total cases), Walton, Richard D. (22,724 total cases), and Ho, Anna (20,231 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (10,887 decided, 33.7% grant rate), Guatemala (9,834 decided, 6.6% grant rate), and El Salvador (6,380 decided, 16.8% 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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This profile ranks #2 by published decided outcomes among 73 courts with at least 5,000 decisions (365,972 outcomes).
Its 29.6% historical rate is 19.1 percentage points above the 10.5% median for those 73 courts.
The largest published nationality row is Mexico: 10,887 decisions and a 33.7% grant rate in the nationality subset's stated scope.
These are descriptive historical aggregates. Court mix, judge assignment, representation, case facts, procedural posture, and changes in law are not controlled here, so the comparisons cannot predict an individual case.
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peters, Rose | 16.2% | 3,737 | 19,317 | 23,054 |
| Walton, Richard D. | 20.1% | 3,560 | 14,115 | 17,675 |
| Ho, Anna | 15.9% | 2,305 | 12,154 | 14,459 |
| Fong, Thomas | 28.8% | 3,857 | 9,537 | 13,394 |
| Hrycenko, Ingrid K. | 36.3% | 4,518 | 7,920 | 12,438 |
| Martin, William J. | 33.2% | 4,290 | 8,614 | 12,904 |
| Latimore, Jan D. | 35.1% | 3,969 | 7,345 | 11,314 |
| Sitgraves, D.D. | 15.1% | 2,185 | 12,250 | 14,435 |
| Ipema, Henry P. | 23.4% | 2,650 | 8,656 | 11,306 |
| Einhorn, Bruce J. | 35.2% | 4,288 | 7,878 | 12,166 |
| Stancill, Christine E | 39.8% | 4,449 | 6,732 | 11,181 |
| Gordon, Nathan W. | 36.3% | 3,735 | 6,560 | 10,295 |
| Romig, Jeffrey L. | 12.3% | 1,092 | 7,772 | 8,864 |
| Walsh, John F. | 27.4% | 2,772 | 7,340 | 10,112 |
| Bronzina, Isabel | 17.7% | 1,709 | 7,961 | 9,670 |
| Bank, Ira | 38.7% | 3,061 | 4,842 | 7,903 |
| Munoz, Lorraine J. | 24.6% | 2,088 | 6,401 | 8,489 |
| Sholomson, Stephen L. | 37.1% | 3,081 | 5,232 | 8,313 |
| Dunkel-Bradley, Dorothy | 38.1% | 2,693 | 4,366 | 7,059 |
| Vahid-Tehrani, Gita | 42.4% | 3,076 | 4,178 | 7,254 |
| Burke, David | 22.7% | 1,673 | 5,709 | 7,382 |
| Tabaddor, A. Ashley | 28.5% | 1,534 | 3,857 | 5,391 |
| Renner, Renee L. | 23.9% | 1,547 | 4,933 | 6,480 |
| Mathon, Lauren R. | 24.4% | 1,782 | 5,511 | 7,293 |
| Segal, Jay | 25.5% | 1,405 | 4,114 | 5,519 |
| Bither, Christine A. | 31.2% | 1,599 | 3,525 | 5,124 |
| Bakke Varzandeh, Joyce | 27.8% | 1,528 | 3,974 | 5,502 |
| O'Connor, Lee | 17.2% | 677 | 3,255 | 3,932 |
| Gembacz, Gilbert T. | 44.3% | 2,378 | 2,989 | 5,367 |
| Seligman, Darlene R. | 31.8% | 1,331 | 2,857 | 4,188 |
| Costa, Philip J. | 34.1% | 1,422 | 2,750 | 4,172 |
| Bass, Lori R. | 31.7% | 1,223 | 2,641 | 3,864 |
| Behne, Audra R. | 11.3% | 435 | 3,406 | 3,841 |
| Juelle, Carlos R. | 9.5% | 482 | 4,580 | 5,062 |
| Giattina, Anthony T. | 40.9% | 1,625 | 2,350 | 3,975 |
| Desai, Jankhana | 16.5% | 526 | 2,666 | 3,192 |
| Simons, Anita L. | 23.1% | 993 | 3,306 | 4,299 |
| Ohata, Ronald N. | 31.5% | 999 | 2,172 | 3,171 |
| Rooyani, Rodin | 32.7% | 919 | 1,891 | 2,810 |
| Villegas, Veronica S. | 19.3% | 627 | 2,623 | 3,250 |
| Little, Monica M. | 32.1% | 756 | 1,599 | 2,355 |
| Del Bene, Charles A. | 25.8% | 600 | 1,726 | 2,326 |
| Malvin, Daniel H. | 11.2% | 266 | 2,100 | 2,366 |
| Taylor, John D. | 39.9% | 660 | 996 | 1,656 |
| Hong, J. Traci | 24.7% | 496 | 1,511 | 2,007 |
| Proctor, George W. | 56.7% | 975 | 745 | 1,720 |
| McDonald, Kristofer R. | 7.0% | 141 | 1,887 | 2,028 |
| Murad, Yvan E. | 6.8% | 121 | 1,652 | 1,773 |
| Mcdermott, Patrick T. | 40.9% | 425 | 613 | 1,038 |
| Perez, Irma | 12.1% | 117 | 851 | 968 |
| Lee, Edward | 31.3% | 157 | 345 | 502 |
| Miller, Jeffrey S. | 25.8% | 205 | 589 | 794 |
| Callaghan, Diana | 2.2% | 7 | 310 | 317 |
| Mc Goings, Michael C. | 2.0% | 6 | 288 | 294 |
| Smith, Kevin D. | 4.5% | 11 | 232 | 243 |
| Fellrath, Robert | 12.8% | 25 | 171 | 196 |
| Carroll-Tipton, Andrea | 60.3% | 44 | 29 | 73 |
| Anderson, Dale E. | 3.2% | 2 | 60 | 62 |
| Ashman, Peter L. | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Roster entries without a usable profile denominator: New Ij #6, Visiting Judge 27, Incoming Judge 2, Salter, John W.. They are excluded from the rate table above.
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 33.7% | 3,672 | 7,215 | 10,887 |
| Guatemala | 6.6% | 651 | 9,183 | 9,834 |
| El Salvador | 16.8% | 1,069 | 5,311 | 6,380 |
| Honduras | 7.3% | 292 | 3,697 | 3,989 |
| Nicaragua | 6.7% | 266 | 3,704 | 3,970 |
| Colombia | 1.6% | 62 | 3,820 | 3,882 |
| China | 57.5% | 1,772 | 1,309 | 3,081 |
| Venezuela | 5.2% | 62 | 1,132 | 1,194 |
| Peru | 5.9% | 68 | 1,081 | 1,149 |
| Russia | 52.3% | 528 | 481 | 1,009 |
| Ecuador | 2.4% | 16 | 654 | 670 |
| India | 51.5% | 193 | 182 | 375 |
| Philippines | 49.6% | 127 | 129 | 256 |
| Belize | 8.0% | 20 | 231 | 251 |
| Armenia | 55.3% | 115 | 93 | 208 |
| Romania | 5.4% | 11 | 191 | 202 |
| Indonesia | 66.7% | 124 | 62 | 186 |
| Iran | 73.7% | 132 | 47 | 179 |
| Egypt | 63.4% | 111 | 64 | 175 |
| Nigeria | 29.6% | 48 | 114 | 162 |
| South Korea | 57.6% | 91 | 67 | 158 |
| Turkey | 12.6% | 18 | 125 | 143 |
| Brazil | 9.3% | 10 | 97 | 107 |
| Bangladesh | 51.7% | 45 | 42 | 87 |
| Syria | 81.6% | 62 | 14 | 76 |
| Cuba | 17.4% | 12 | 57 | 69 |
| Vietnam | 53.1% | 34 | 30 | 64 |
| Israel | 37.3% | 22 | 37 | 59 |
| Belarus | 37.3% | 22 | 37 | 59 |
| Kazakhstan | 24.6% | 14 | 43 | 57 |
| Ukraine | 51.8% | 29 | 27 | 56 |
| Jordan | 50.0% | 26 | 26 | 52 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 49.0% | 24 | 25 | 49 |
| Jamaica | 23.4% | 11 | 36 | 47 |
| Lebanon | 52.2% | 24 | 22 | 46 |
| Mongolia | 46.7% | 21 | 24 | 45 |
| Haiti | 4.8% | 2 | 40 | 42 |
| Afghanistan | 25.6% | 10 | 29 | 39 |
| Senegal | 5.1% | 2 | 37 | 39 |
| Nepal | 75.7% | 28 | 9 | 37 |
| Pakistan | 47.2% | 17 | 19 | 36 |
| Unknown Nationality | 12.9% | 4 | 27 | 31 |
| Cameroon | 48.3% | 14 | 15 | 29 |
| Argentina | 20.7% | 6 | 23 | 29 |
| Thailand | 25.0% | 7 | 21 | 28 |
| Burma (Myanmar) | 85.7% | 24 | 4 | 28 |
| Azerbaijan | 17.9% | 5 | 23 | 28 |
| Chile | 16.0% | 4 | 21 | 25 |
| Kenya | 34.8% | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country | 87.0% | 20 | 3 | 23 |
| Ghana | 59.1% | 13 | 9 | 22 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 22 | 22 |
| Uzbekistan | 5.3% | 1 | 18 | 19 |
| Japan | 0.0% | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| Cambodia | 13.3% | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| Costa Rica | 26.7% | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| Canada | 50.0% | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Sri Lanka | 58.3% | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Germany | 66.7% | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| Iraq | 66.7% | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| Niger | 45.5% | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| Turkmenistan | 9.1% | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Ethiopia | 50.0% | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Uganda | 55.6% | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| United Kingdom | 0.0% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Tunisia | 66.7% | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Taiwan | 50.0% | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 16.7% | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| Mauritania | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Yemen | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Morocco | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Eritrea | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Panama | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Spain | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Georgia | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Hong Kong | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Australia | 33.3% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 50.0% | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Soviet Union | 100.0% | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Guinea | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |