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Judge Cheng, David

Immigration Judge at Newark, NJ

15.7%
Approval Rate
475
Granted
2,221
Denied
2,696
Total Decided

Judge Cheng, David serves at the Newark, NJ Immigration Court. With an asylum approval rate of 15.7%, this judge is below average compared to the national average. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).

Approval Rate by Nationality

NationalityApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
Ecuador 15.0% 77 435 512
Guatemala 5.2% 24 435 459
Mexico 57.6% 182 134 316
Honduras 5.1% 14 262 276
Colombia 14.7% 24 139 163
Brazil 7.8% 12 141 153
El Salvador 15.7% 21 113 134
Peru 23.5% 31 101 132
Dominican Republic 13.5% 15 96 111
Turkey 4.8% 4 80 84
Venezuela 0.0% 0 48 48
Nigeria 41.5% 17 24 41
Nicaragua 9.4% 3 29 32
India 16.7% 5 25 30
Costa Rica 13.3% 4 26 30
Haiti 15.0% 3 17 20
Ghana 8.3% 1 11 12
Egypt 33.3% 4 8 12
Georgia 45.5% 5 6 11
United Kingdom 0.0% 0 11 11
Cuba 0.0% 0 8 8
Jamaica 25.0% 2 6 8
China 37.5% 3 5 8
Bolivia 0.0% 0 7 7
Bangladesh 0.0% 0 6 6
Uzbekistan 16.7% 1 5 6
Burkina Faso 33.3% 2 4 6
Guinea 0.0% 0 6 6
Portugal 0.0% 0 5 5
Tajikistan (Tadzhik) 0.0% 0 5 5
Chad 0.0% 0 5 5
Ukraine 100.0% 4 0 4
Poland 100.0% 4 0 4
Pakistan 0.0% 0 3 3
Paraguay 100.0% 3 0 3
Turkmenistan 0.0% 0 3 3
Senegal 0.0% 0 3 3
South Korea 50.0% 1 1 2
Philippines 50.0% 1 1 2
Liberia 50.0% 1 1 2
Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire) 100.0% 2 0 2
Russia 0.0% 0 2 2
Indonesia 100.0% 2 0 2
Soviet Union 100.0% 2 0 2
Afghanistan 0.0% 0 2 2
Trinidad And Tobago 0.0% 0 1 1
Jordan 100.0% 1 0 1
Morocco 0.0% 0 1 1

Yearly Trends

YearApproval RateGrantedDeniedDecided
20252.0%251,2301,255
202443.7%114147261
202339.1%135210345
202235.5%103187290
202127.2%72193265
202013.3%46299345

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