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Santa Ana, CA Immigration Court

29 judges · CA

2.0%
Court Approval Rate
4,979
Total Granted
41,126
Total Denied
29
Judges

The Santa Ana, CA Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 2.0% across 46,105 decided cases. The court has 29 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

Judges at This Court

JudgeApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Rothschild, Jerome M., JR. 10.0% 279 2,507 2,786
Francis, Leon J. 11.2% 321 2,548 2,869
Walker, Nathaniel B. 8.0% 183 2,099 2,282
Piepmeier, Kristin 3.2% 88 2,694 2,782
Waterloo, Jason R. 23.0% 298 999 1,297
Fishkin, Andrew 16.8% 452 2,243 2,695
Simmons, Gregory L. 10.2% 232 2,047 2,279
Norregard, Aggie 6.1% 146 2,231 2,377
Huang, Jonathan 6.4% 147 2,152 2,299
Brooks, Alicia 12.5% 265 1,847 2,112
Lee, Wilbur 8.1% 159 1,794 1,953
Ghasri, Iman 8.1% 175 1,979 2,154
Noche, Joyce 18.9% 406 1,742 2,148
Tadros-Ibarra, Terese 15.6% 300 1,623 1,923
Mabry III, William 27.9% 346 894 1,240
McFadden, Anita 8.5% 169 1,816 1,985
Chan, Matthew 14.2% 185 1,117 1,302
Levin, Victoria 18.4% 233 1,035 1,268
Hope, Karen 7.2% 129 1,652 1,781
McNary, Christopher D. 8.2% 127 1,420 1,547
Libeu, Heather 6.8% 99 1,364 1,463
Margolin, Daren K. 8.8% 15 156 171
Visiting Judge 16 0.0% 0 0 0
Visiting Judge 21 0.0% 0 0 0
Visiting Judge 22 0.0% 0 0 0
Visiting Judge 19 100.0% 0 0 0
Visiting Judge 18 0.0% 0 0 0
Visiting Judge 26 0.0% 0 0 0
Visiting Judge 28 0.0% 0 0 0

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Mexico 4.0% 536 12,915 13,451
Colombia 2.2% 127 5,557 5,684
Guatemala 2.1% 119 5,517 5,636
Nicaragua 7.3% 394 5,028 5,422
China 45.3% 1,114 1,344 2,458
Honduras 2.4% 46 1,850 1,896
El Salvador 6.7% 115 1,601 1,716
Venezuela 5.5% 92 1,590 1,682
Peru 2.1% 34 1,600 1,634
India 26.0% 343 975 1,318
Russia 56.9% 579 439 1,018
Romania 1.9% 14 741 755
Ecuador 1.1% 5 466 471
Egypt 80.7% 259 62 321
Turkey 45.3% 124 150 274
Iran 78.7% 203 55 258
Indonesia 72.5% 129 49 178
Vietnam 15.4% 25 137 162
Syria 70.6% 89 37 126
Philippines 33.0% 38 77 115
Jordan 34.4% 33 63 96
Kazakhstan 44.6% 41 51 92
Cuba 18.7% 17 74 91
Belarus 81.1% 73 17 90
Afghanistan 23.2% 19 63 82
South Korea 71.9% 46 18 64
Nigeria 35.7% 20 36 56
Brazil 7.3% 4 51 55
Unknown Nationality 7.7% 4 48 52
Belize 12.0% 6 44 50
Bolivia 6.2% 3 45 48
Nepal 23.3% 10 33 43
Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) 31.7% 13 28 41
Iraq 76.9% 30 9 39
Costa Rica 3.0% 1 32 33
Pakistan 66.7% 20 10 30
Lebanon 79.3% 23 6 29
Comoro Islands 58.6% 17 12 29
Kenya 51.9% 14 13 27
Stateless - Alien Unable To Name A Country 92.3% 24 2 26
Argentina 4.2% 1 23 24
Cameroon 73.9% 17 6 23
Haiti 0.0% 0 22 22
Tunisia 59.1% 13 9 22
Armenia 20.0% 4 16 20
Dominican Republic 0.0% 0 20 20
Bangladesh 68.4% 13 6 19
Canada 38.9% 7 11 18
Sudan 47.1% 8 9 17
Thailand 13.3% 2 13 15
Turkmenistan 73.3% 11 4 15
Mongolia 64.3% 9 5 14
Jamaica 30.8% 4 9 13
Israel 18.2% 2 9 11
United Kingdom 27.3% 3 8 11
Uzbekistan 0.0% 0 11 11
Georgia 54.5% 6 5 11
Ethiopia 72.7% 8 3 11
Eritrea 54.5% 6 5 11
Ukraine 60.0% 6 4 10
Ghana 60.0% 6 4 10
Niger 50.0% 5 5 10
Chile 20.0% 2 8 10
Panama 50.0% 5 5 10
Taiwan 11.1% 1 8 9
Sri Lanka 25.0% 2 6 8
Saudi Arabia 87.5% 7 1 8
Palestine 87.5% 7 1 8
Somalia 25.0% 2 6 8
Guadeloupe 0.0% 0 7 7
Libya 33.3% 2 4 6
Azerbaijan 66.7% 4 2 6
Morocco 33.3% 2 4 6
Cambodia 60.0% 3 2 5
Angola 0.0% 0 5 5
Senegal 0.0% 0 5 5
Poland 50.0% 2 2 4
Guinea 66.7% 2 1 3
Spain 0.0% 0 3 3
Congo 50.0% 1 1 2
Ireland 0.0% 0 2 2
Japan 100.0% 1 0 1
France 100.0% 1 0 1
Zimbabwe 100.0% 1 0 1
Mauritania 0.0% 0 1 1

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