EOIR / Immigration Judge
Immigration Judge Walton, Richard D. - 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 Walton, Richard D. at the Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court. Across the 232 decisions on record from April 2006 to November 2019, the asylum grant rate was 22.0%.
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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 |
|---|---|
| 2015-01 | 0.0% |
| 2015-02 | 0.0% |
| 2015-03 | 0.0% |
| 2015-04 | 0.0% |
| 2015-05 | 12.5% |
| 2015-06 | 0.0% |
| 2015-12 | 0.0% |
| 2019-11 | 0.0% |
These statistics describe past asylum decisions, not a prediction of any individual case. Your options depend on the specific facts of your case.