EOIR / Immigration Judge
Immigration Judge Peterson, William C. - Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court - Asylum Decision Statistics
EOIR's FOIA data release does not report a trailing 12-month asylum grant rate for Immigration Judge Peterson, William C. at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court. Across the 334 decisions on record from September 2002 to April 2005, the asylum grant rate was 29.9%.
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Latest 12-month grant rate
Asylum decisions, trailing 12 months
Lifetime total cases
All recorded asylum decisions
FY2025 court average
Complete fiscal year: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
Court average before the 2025 change
FY2024 baseline: Oct 2023 – Sep 2024
FY2024 was the last full fiscal year before the January 2025 asylum-policy changes, so it is kept fixed as a before-and-after baseline rather than updated. More cases now close administratively, which shifts the merit-decision mix and is why the later figures are much lower.
Last data refresh
From Deportation Data Project FOIA release
Monthly grant-rate trend
| Month | Grant rate |
|---|---|
| 2004-05 | 30.0% |
| 2004-06 | 0.0% |
| 2004-07 | 18.2% |
| 2004-08 | 0.0% |
| 2004-09 | 27.3% |
| 2004-10 | 54.5% |
| 2004-11 | 54.5% |
| 2004-12 | 37.5% |
| 2005-01 | 0.0% |
| 2005-02 | 50.0% |
| 2005-03 | 87.5% |
| 2005-04 | 14.3% |
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