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Inside Immigration

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Immigration judges

Maria Jaimes-Salgado

Immigration Judge, Houston - Greenspoint Park. Appointed August 2022.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Jaimes-Salgado84.1%
Houston - Greenspoint court89.4%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
553
Asylum granted
64
Other relief granted
24
Denied
465
Against own court
-5.3 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY23FY24FY25FY26
53%75%91%98%

Read from TRAC's chart to the nearest point. Years with fewer than 25 decisions are not shown.

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 79% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: Venezuela (25.7%), Cuba (17.2%), Honduras (15.2%), Nicaragua (8%), Colombia (6.9%).

Official biography

Maria L. Jaimes-Salgado was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in August 2022. Judge Jaimes-Salgado ear ned a Bachelor of Science in 2006 from the University of Houston-Downtown and a Juris Doctor in 2009 from Texas South University Thurgood Marshall School of Law. From 2021 to 2022, she was an associate attorney with the Law Office of Velia E. Rosas PLLC in Houston. From 2019 to 2022, she was in private practice in Houston. From 2012 to 2019, she was mana ging attorney, and from 2009 to 2012, she was an associate attorney, at the Law Office of Isaias Torres PC in Houston. Judge Jaimes-Salgado is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.

In the record

No published reporting or appellate decisions naming this judge have been collected yet.

Other judges at Houston - Greenspoint

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About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.