Immigration Judge at Chicago, IL
Judge Robert D. Vinikoor serves at the Chicago, IL Immigration Court. With an asylum approval rate of 17.5%, this judge is below average compared to the national average. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
Robert D. Vinikoor is listed with the Chicago, IL Immigration Court. The headline asylum grant rate shown here is 17.5% based on granted and denied asylum decisions represented in the current dataset.
Nationality-specific rows are shown when enough decided cases are available in the source data. Compare these rows with the judge's overall rate because nationality mix can materially change how the headline number should be read.
Grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Other procedural outcomes, including terminated, withdrawn, administratively closed, or removed cases, are tracked separately where available and are not treated as asylum grants.
This page is based on public EOIR data last updated 2026-07-01. It is for research and information only, not legal advice.
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Judge Robert D. Vinikoor's asylum approval rate is 17.5% according to EOIR FOIA data.
The dataset lists 25,651 total asylum cases for Judge Robert D. Vinikoor.
The approval rate is calculated as granted divided by (granted + denied). It excludes terminations and withdrawals, and the source is EOIR FOIA data.