EOIR / Immigration Judge
Immigration Judge Yates, Clarease Rankin - 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 Yates, Clarease Rankin at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court. Across the 2093 decisions on record from January 1998 to June 2020, the asylum grant rate was 30.0%.
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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 |
|---|---|
| 2015-07 | 0.0% |
| 2015-08 | 46.2% |
| 2015-09 | 40.0% |
| 2015-10 | 50.0% |
| 2015-11 | 0.0% |
| 2015-12 | 40.0% |
| 2016-01 | 0.0% |
| 2016-02 | 40.0% |
| 2016-03 | 36.4% |
| 2016-04 | 25.0% |
| 2016-05 | 0.0% |
| 2016-06 | 33.3% |
| 2016-07 | 16.7% |
| 2016-08 | 40.0% |
| 2016-09 | 0.0% |
| 2016-10 | 0.0% |
| 2016-11 | 37.5% |
| 2016-12 | 16.7% |
| 2017-01 | 50.0% |
| 2017-02 | 0.0% |
| 2017-03 | 30.8% |
| 2017-04 | 11.1% |
| 2017-05 | 14.3% |
| 2017-06 | 30.8% |
| 2017-07 | 0.0% |
| 2017-08 | 38.5% |
| 2017-09 | 0.0% |
| 2017-10 | 0.0% |
| 2017-11 | 12.5% |
| 2017-12 | 0.0% |
| 2018-01 | 33.3% |
| 2018-02 | 0.0% |
| 2018-03 | 5.0% |
| 2018-04 | 6.3% |
| 2018-05 | 4.2% |
| 2018-06 | 20.0% |
| 2018-07 | 42.1% |
| 2018-08 | 43.5% |
| 2018-09 | 26.7% |
| 2018-10 | 0.0% |
| 2018-11 | 0.0% |
| 2018-12 | 20.0% |
| 2019-01 | 33.3% |
| 2019-02 | 18.2% |
| 2019-03 | 7.7% |
| 2019-04 | 33.3% |
| 2019-05 | 4.8% |
| 2019-06 | 21.7% |
| 2019-07 | 8.7% |
| 2019-08 | 6.1% |
| 2019-09 | 2.2% |
| 2019-10 | 3.5% |
| 2019-11 | 7.0% |
| 2019-12 | 33.3% |
| 2020-01 | 60.0% |
| 2020-02 | 0.0% |
| 2020-03 | 0.0% |
| 2020-06 | 50.0% |
These statistics describe past asylum decisions, not a prediction of any individual case. Your options depend on the specific facts of your case.