Immigration judge

Vargas-Padilla, Nelson A.

Elizabeth Immigration Court

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These figures are not current

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

Lifetime grant rate

41.7%

127 decisions

Grant rate, last 12 months on record

25.9%

34 decisions · 12 months ending December 2025

22.7%

Court lifetime 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 2019May 2020Apr 2023Dec 2025Month each 12-month window ends25.9%56.1% — 12 months ending Feb 2019 (57 decisions)53.4% — 12 months ending Mar 2019 (73 decisions)55.7% — 12 months ending Apr 2019 (79 decisions)54.1% — 12 months ending May 2019 (85 decisions)53.5% — 12 months ending Jun 2019 (86 decisions)54.0% — 12 months ending Oct 2019 (87 decisions)53.3% — 12 months ending May 2020 (90 decisions)52.4% — 12 months ending Jun 2020 (82 decisions)52.1% — 12 months ending Apr 2023 (71 decisions)50.0% — 12 months ending Aug 2025 (68 decisions)44.6% — 12 months ending Sep 2025 (65 decisions)38.5% — 12 months ending Oct 2025 (65 decisions)30.3% — 12 months ending Nov 2025 (66 decisions)25.9% — 12 months ending Dec 2025 (54 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.

Same judge name at other courts

This record covers one court only. The same judge name also appears at the courts below, with separate statistics.

Monthly decisions

Showing the most recent 19 months on record. Months with no decisions are not listed.

Decisions and grant rate by month for this judge
MonthDecisionsGrant rate
December 20254Not reported
November 20258Not reported
October 202510Not reported
September 20257Not reported
August 20255Not reported
April 20232Not reported
June 20201Not reported
May 20203Not reported
October 20191Not reported
June 20191Not reported
May 20196Not reported
April 20196Not reported
March 201916Not reported
February 20197Not reported
January 201910Not reported
December 201810Not reported
November 20188Not reported
October 201813Not reported
September 20189Not 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 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.

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