Immigration court
New York Broadway, NY Immigration Court
31 judges · NY
EOIR data through Sep 1, 2026 · updated monthly
- 11,429
- Granted
- 61,769
- Denied
- 31
- Judges
Distribution
How this court's judges compare
At New York Broadway, NY, 29 judges range from 0.9% to 66.4%.
Each judge's all-time EOIR decided outcomes across every court they have served in: granted ÷ (granted + denied). Judges now based at this court with at least 100 decided cases. A historical pattern — not a prediction for any case.
The 2026-09-01 snapshot shows a 15.6% historical asylum grant rate for New York Broadway, NY Immigration Court, based on 11,429 grants and 61,769 denials (73,198 decided outcomes).
The New York Broadway, NY Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 15.6% across 73,198 decided cases. The court has 31 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
How to Interpret This Court's Data
The New York Broadway, NY Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 15.6% 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 Laforest, Brigitte (15,842 total cases), Brennan, Noel A. (12,567 total cases), and Christensen, Jesse B. (9,223 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Ecuador (18,807 decided, 6.3% grant rate), Guatemala (6,114 decided, 4.3% grant rate), and Honduras (5,135 decided, 9.9% 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 2026-09-01. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
Read how EOIR data works or learn how to compare asylum approval rates.
Areas Served by This Court
Based on the official EOIR ZIP-code assignment, the New York Broadway, NY Immigration Court is the assigned filing location for 271 ZIP codes. Main cities by state:
NY — Bronx, White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Accord, Amawalk, Amenia, Annandale On Hudson, Arden, Ardsley, Ardsley On Hudson, Armonk and 217 more cities
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Judges at This Court
| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laforest, Brigitte | 56.5% | 7,563 | 5,829 | 13,392 |
| Brennan, Noel A. | 66.4% | 7,228 | 3,661 | 10,889 |
| Christensen, Jesse B. | 32.1% | 2,531 | 5,358 | 7,889 |
| Poczter, Aviva L. | 36.3% | 2,723 | 4,782 | 7,505 |
| Gundlach, Robert | 21.6% | 862 | 3,122 | 3,984 |
| Mccarthy, James M. | 20.7% | 930 | 3,573 | 4,503 |
| Mckee, James | 4.3% | 198 | 4,448 | 4,646 |
| Cassin, Olivia L. | 59.0% | 2,010 | 1,395 | 3,405 |
| Chung, Jennifer | 15.2% | 622 | 3,461 | 4,083 |
| Perl, Adam | 8.9% | 320 | 3,286 | 3,606 |
| Calvelli, Andrew | 19.3% | 661 | 2,769 | 3,430 |
| Lazare-Raphael, Shirley | 15.5% | 523 | 2,858 | 3,381 |
| Krasinski, Carolyn | 11.8% | 368 | 2,746 | 3,114 |
| Bartleson, Thomas | 23.1% | 675 | 2,251 | 2,926 |
| Navarro, Maria E. | 44.8% | 1,343 | 1,656 | 2,999 |
| Dodd, Diane | 5.8% | 157 | 2,563 | 2,720 |
| Lebreton, Tanawa | 16.7% | 392 | 1,962 | 2,354 |
| Habib, Fayaz | 5.5% | 110 | 1,883 | 1,993 |
| Xu, ShaSha | 4.8% | 94 | 1,853 | 1,947 |
| Diao, Anna | 9.9% | 183 | 1,665 | 1,848 |
| Sanon, Chevone Teranza. | 9.0% | 165 | 1,660 | 1,825 |
| Lee, Kalenna | 12.4% | 229 | 1,614 | 1,843 |
| Grogan, Edward | 17.2% | 257 | 1,239 | 1,496 |
| Martinez Soler, Dianna Michelle. | 25.0% | 326 | 976 | 1,302 |
| Taylor, Khalilah | 23.5% | 201 | 656 | 857 |
| Stephens, Christopher | 6.4% | 22 | 322 | 344 |
| Lawrence, Clayton | 1.3% | 3 | 229 | 232 |
| Weisert, Thomas | 0.9% | 2 | 220 | 222 |
| Weintraub, Jacob | 2.4% | 5 | 206 | 211 |
| Henry, Jennifer | 2.9% | 1 | 33 | 34 |
| Luba, Louis J. | 0.0% | 0 | 24 | 24 |
Roster entries without a usable profile denominator: Visiting Judge 11, Urraca, Yaniris. They are excluded from the rate table above.
Approval Rate by Nationality
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 6.3% | 1,181 | 17,626 | 18,807 |
| Guatemala | 4.3% | 265 | 5,849 | 6,114 |
| Honduras | 9.9% | 506 | 4,629 | 5,135 |
| Dominican Republic | 1.9% | 98 | 4,942 | 5,040 |
| Peru | 5.0% | 200 | 3,777 | 3,977 |
| Colombia | 9.3% | 371 | 3,599 | 3,970 |
| Venezuela | 8.7% | 317 | 3,319 | 3,636 |
| Senegal | 6.2% | 206 | 3,092 | 3,298 |
| Guinea | 29.1% | 730 | 1,778 | 2,508 |
| China | 68.3% | 1,585 | 735 | 2,320 |
| El Salvador | 22.8% | 417 | 1,414 | 1,831 |
| Mexico | 15.3% | 278 | 1,535 | 1,813 |
| India | 41.5% | 614 | 864 | 1,478 |
| Ghana | 39.6% | 425 | 648 | 1,073 |
| Bangladesh | 57.6% | 609 | 448 | 1,057 |
| Jamaica | 17.4% | 172 | 815 | 987 |
| Nicaragua | 17.5% | 152 | 718 | 870 |
| Mauritania | 17.0% | 146 | 711 | 857 |
| Haiti | 10.5% | 85 | 721 | 806 |
| Russia | 66.8% | 379 | 188 | 567 |
| Albania | 67.8% | 352 | 167 | 519 |
| Burkina Faso | 36.1% | 166 | 294 | 460 |
| Dominica | 0.6% | 2 | 359 | 361 |
| Pakistan | 50.0% | 175 | 175 | 350 |
| Brazil | 8.3% | 25 | 277 | 302 |
| Uzbekistan | 60.4% | 172 | 113 | 285 |
| Gambia | 20.6% | 58 | 224 | 282 |
| Georgia | 54.2% | 148 | 125 | 273 |
| Nepal | 62.8% | 150 | 89 | 239 |
| Kosovo | 63.6% | 140 | 80 | 220 |
| Mali | 20.7% | 43 | 165 | 208 |
| Nigeria | 53.3% | 98 | 86 | 184 |
| Togo | 19.1% | 35 | 148 | 183 |
| Soviet Union | 76.3% | 132 | 41 | 173 |
| Chile | 13.8% | 20 | 125 | 145 |
| Turkey | 23.8% | 34 | 109 | 143 |
| Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) | 44.0% | 59 | 75 | 134 |
| Ukraine | 72.5% | 74 | 28 | 102 |
| Singapore | 8.0% | 8 | 92 | 100 |
| Panama | 8.9% | 8 | 82 | 90 |
| Romania | 7.9% | 7 | 82 | 89 |
| Vietnam | 11.6% | 10 | 76 | 86 |
| Afghanistan | 76.5% | 62 | 19 | 81 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 2.5% | 2 | 78 | 80 |
| Chad | 4.3% | 3 | 67 | 70 |
| Sri Lanka | 35.8% | 24 | 43 | 67 |
| Cuba | 21.5% | 14 | 51 | 65 |
| Egypt | 56.2% | 36 | 28 | 64 |
| Guyana | 33.9% | 21 | 41 | 62 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 62.3% | 38 | 23 | 61 |
| Paraguay | 7.4% | 4 | 50 | 54 |
| Yemen | 42.0% | 21 | 29 | 50 |
| Kazakhstan | 63.3% | 31 | 18 | 49 |
| Sudan | 22.4% | 11 | 38 | 49 |
| Morocco | 2.2% | 1 | 44 | 45 |
| Trinidad And Tobago | 39.5% | 17 | 26 | 43 |
| Argentina | 9.3% | 4 | 39 | 43 |
| Congo | 11.6% | 5 | 38 | 43 |
| Angola | 12.2% | 5 | 36 | 41 |
| Jordan | 2.5% | 1 | 39 | 40 |
| Unknown Nationality | 35.3% | 12 | 22 | 34 |
| Belize | 3.2% | 1 | 30 | 31 |
| Azerbaijan | 40.7% | 11 | 16 | 27 |
| Costa Rica | 11.1% | 3 | 24 | 27 |
| Serbia | 84.0% | 21 | 4 | 25 |
| United Kingdom | 0.0% | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| Bermuda | 56.5% | 13 | 10 | 23 |
| Belarus | 81.8% | 18 | 4 | 22 |
| Niger | 22.7% | 5 | 17 | 22 |
| Benin | 13.6% | 3 | 19 | 22 |
| Philippines | 23.8% | 5 | 16 | 21 |
| Burma (Myanmar) | 84.2% | 16 | 3 | 19 |
| Sierra Leone | 42.1% | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| Poland | 22.2% | 4 | 14 | 18 |
| Moldavia (Moldova) | 68.8% | 11 | 5 | 16 |
| Tajikistan (Tadzhik) | 81.2% | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| Cameroon | 31.2% | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| Ireland | 0.0% | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| Guinea Bissau | 14.3% | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| Bhutan | 66.7% | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| Bahamas | 40.0% | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Italy | 0.0% | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Liberia | 25.0% | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Hungary | 66.7% | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Bolivia | 0.0% | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Mozambique | 66.7% | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Saudi Arabia | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| South Korea | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Comoro Islands | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Turkmenistan | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Canada | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Somalia | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| AC | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Slovak Republic | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Central African Republic | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |