Immigration court

Harlingen Immigration Court

Harlingen, TX, 78550

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Captured September 18, 2026 — about 0 months ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

Quick answer

Harlingen Immigration Court is one of the U.S. immigration courts in this record. The court-wide asylum grant rate in the release is 13.5%. Individual judges at the same court differ substantially, so open a judge below for their own figures. These are historical figures, not a prediction about any case.

Court-wide grant rate

13.5%

7,145

Decisions on record

74

Judges

Court location

2009 West Jefferson Avenue, Suite 300

Harlingen, TX, 78550

Grant-rate trend

Each point is the grant rate across the 12 months ending in that month — a rolling window, not a single month on its own. A point appears only where those 12 months hold at least 25 decisions. A rolling window covers a much shorter span than the lifetime figure above, so the two can differ materially; both are correct measures of different periods.

0%25%50%75%100%Aug 2023Mar 2024Oct 2024May 2025Dec 2025Jul 2026Month each 12-month window ends0.5%12.9% — 12 months ending Aug 2023 (318 decisions)12.5% — 12 months ending Sep 2023 (256 decisions)15.2% — 12 months ending Oct 2023 (231 decisions)15.9% — 12 months ending Nov 2023 (201 decisions)18.8% — 12 months ending Dec 2023 (192 decisions)18.6% — 12 months ending Jan 2024 (194 decisions)17.1% — 12 months ending Feb 2024 (175 decisions)17.6% — 12 months ending Mar 2024 (176 decisions)14.0% — 12 months ending Apr 2024 (171 decisions)15.5% — 12 months ending May 2024 (168 decisions)15.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2024 (167 decisions)13.2% — 12 months ending Jul 2024 (159 decisions)13.4% — 12 months ending Aug 2024 (149 decisions)13.2% — 12 months ending Sep 2024 (151 decisions)11.3% — 12 months ending Oct 2024 (159 decisions)8.9% — 12 months ending Nov 2024 (168 decisions)6.2% — 12 months ending Dec 2024 (177 decisions)7.4% — 12 months ending Jan 2025 (175 decisions)7.7% — 12 months ending Feb 2025 (182 decisions)9.8% — 12 months ending Mar 2025 (205 decisions)10.8% — 12 months ending Apr 2025 (223 decisions)12.2% — 12 months ending May 2025 (222 decisions)12.3% — 12 months ending Jun 2025 (228 decisions)12.6% — 12 months ending Jul 2025 (223 decisions)13.1% — 12 months ending Aug 2025 (221 decisions)12.8% — 12 months ending Sep 2025 (227 decisions)11.7% — 12 months ending Oct 2025 (240 decisions)9.6% — 12 months ending Nov 2025 (313 decisions)7.2% — 12 months ending Dec 2025 (401 decisions)6.4% — 12 months ending Jan 2026 (439 decisions)5.7% — 12 months ending Feb 2026 (457 decisions)3.9% — 12 months ending Mar 2026 (514 decisions)2.4% — 12 months ending Apr 2026 (636 decisions)1.1% — 12 months ending May 2026 (877 decisions)0.8% — 12 months ending Jun 2026 (1,354 decisions)0.5% — 12 months ending Jul 2026 (1,866 decisions)

19 months are not plotted: the 12 months ending there held fewer than 25 decisions.

Judges on record at this court

Judges at this court, with lifetime grant rate and decisions on record
JudgeGrant rateDecisions
Ayala, David22.0%967
Gonzalez, Delia I.5.5%894
Pineda, Christopher1.3%551
Tovar, Eleazar21.8%542
Achtsam, Howard E.13.0%485
Leonard, Joseph T.8.7%402
Castaneda, Julian5.2%382
Burkhart, Margaret D.41.2%291
Rodriguez, Adam0.0%223
Freeman, D'Anna H.11.2%169
Schools, Shelly W.19.6%148
Ybarra, Jesus Juan.0.0%131
Crews, John G.20.8%125
Pimentel, Frank T.2.4%124
Galvao, Andrew0.0%115
Clancy, Sean D.15.2%112
Guidry, Monica Thompson16.7%108
Peterson, William C.29.9%107
Garcia, Melissa Joy32.7%104
Brown, Charlotte D.2.9%102
Brooks, Mark K.13.5%96
Stevens, Courtney Chua.0.0%85
Uddin, Marium S.11.5%78
Ellison, Sarah M.29.7%74
Onyewuchi, Morris I.1.4%74
Sydnor, Kelley N21.6%74
Hable, Paul A.5.9%68
Cigarroa, Barbara Gonzalez26.8%56
May, Jennifer A.15.4%52
Gilbert, Daniel B.32.0%50
Figueroa, Laura C.0.0%49
Hart, Brandon L.31.8%44
Bashore, Jacob D.18.0%39
Yam, Mimi0.0%35
Abbott, William L.Not reported24
Owens, Robert P.Not reported19
Martinez, Hugo R.Not reported17
Dillow, EricNot reported16
Eller, Donald R.Not reported15
Garcia, EmmanuelNot reported15
Mcphaul, Glenn P.Not reported12
Miller, Joe D.Not reported9
Hughes, Edwin R.Not reported7
Defillo, Irma LopezNot reported5
Jacobs, Richard C.Not reported5
Videla, Gabriel C.Not reported5
Bain, Quynh VuNot reported4
Fluke, Randall L.Not reported4
John-Baptiste, AllanNot reported3
Carreras-Amadeo, MoniqueNot reported2
Carte', John D.Not reported2
Cordova, David J.Not reported2
Nettles, Marsha K.Not reported2
Balasquide, Javier E.Not reported1
Chapa, TeofiloNot reported1
Costa, Philip J.Not reported1
Crosland, David W.Not reported1
Davis, John W.Not reported1
Dean, Larry R.Not reported1
Dornell, LisaNot reported1
Dowell, J. DanielNot reported1
Garcy, Annie S.Not reported1
Hladylowycz, Roxanne C.Not reported1
Hunsucker, Keith E.Not reported1
Klein, ElizaNot reported1
Leeds, Frederic G.Not reported1
MacGregor, Margaret R.Not reported1
Medved, Paul N.Not reported1
Ozmun, Richard R.Not reported1
Sanders, Charles J.Not reported1
Tadal, MirlandeNot reported1
Thielemann, Christopher J.Not reported1
Weisel, Robert D.Not reported1
Williams, Phillip T.Not reported1

Source and method

These figures come from case data released by the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) under the Freedom of Information Act, published by the Deportation Data Project. Imigrar did not produce or estimate them.

Captured on September 18, 2026, about 0 months ago, so it is out of date. The record covers decisions from October 1997 through July 2026; nothing filed or decided after July 2026 appears here.

Grant rates are historical aggregates. They describe decisions already made. They do not predict the outcome of any individual case, and no figure on this page should be read as a forecast of what will happen in yours.

This page is informational only and is not legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Only the official EOIR record is authoritative.

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