Immigration judge

Vargas-Padilla, Nelson A.

Elizabeth Immigration Court

How current these figures are

Captured October 23, 2026 — 13 days ago. Decisions made since then are not included.

79

Lifetime decisions on record

Grant rate, last 12 months on record

55.7%

61 decisions · 12 months ending October 2019

0.7%

FY2026 court average

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%Feb 2019Apr 2019Jun 2019Oct 2019Month each 12-month window ends55.7%60.4% — 12 months ending Feb 2019 (53 decisions)57.4% — 12 months ending Mar 2019 (68 decisions)59.5% — 12 months ending Apr 2019 (74 decisions)59.7% — 12 months ending May 2019 (77 decisions)59.0% — 12 months ending Jun 2019 (78 decisions)55.7% — 12 months ending Oct 2019 (61 decisions)

The line is broken where this record has no decisions for several months. It is left open rather than joined, because joining it would imply decisions that were never recorded.

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

Monthly decisions

Showing the most recent 11 months on record. Months with no decisions are not listed.

Decisions and grant rate by month for this judge
MonthDecisionsGrant rate
October 20191Not reported
June 20191Not reported
May 20193Not reported
April 20196Not reported
March 201915Not reported
February 20197Not reported
January 201910Not reported
December 201810Not reported
November 20188Not reported
October 201810Not reported
September 20188Not reported

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 October 23, 2026, 13 days ago. The record covers decisions from September 2018 through October 2019; nothing filed or decided after October 2019 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.

Open the source data — Deportation Data Project

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