Vargas-Padilla, Nelson A.: asylum decision statistics

Vargas-Padilla, Nelson A., immigration judge (Baltimore, MD). Asylum and other protection-from-removal approval rate over 5 years: 42.3%, with 711 grant-or-deny decisions. National average: 23.3%. Court average: 31.8%. Rank among 823 active judges nationwide by all-time approval rate: 147. Share of applicants with an attorney: 86.9%.

Judges of the Baltimore, MD court

• Baltimore, MD immigration court
• Weil, Jack H. · 22.3%
• Hartye, Alice Song · 42.6%
• Golparvar, Kuyomars Q. · 12.4%
• Shirole, Pallavi S. · 30.4%
• Mahasa, Zakia · 70.6%
• Maya, Elizabeth Kohler · 43.4%
• Smulow, Daniel · 45.9%
• Kassell, Joseph · 16.5%
• Napier, Wade Thomas · 25.9%
• Jostad, Brent · 18.1%
• Sprague, Jeffrey T. · 8.9%
• Vincent, Gordon S. · 11.5%
• Kessler, Elizabeth A. · 57.1%
• Taylor, Michael · 7.6%
• Crosland, David W. · 65.9%
• Adams, Julie · 4.1%
• Julius, Derek · 42.2%
• Hart, Brandon L. · 25.9%
• Watters, Matthew H · 61.3%
• Pearsall, Gurney F. · 8.7%
• Williams, Phillip T. · 77.3%
• Koelsch, David C. · 89.5%
• Verma, Dinesh C. · 80.0%
• Jones, David M. · 72.7%

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