# Walter A. Durling: historical immigration judge code records

In FY2017, 27 of 103 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code WAD at Elizabeth were grants (26.21%) and 76 were denials (73.79%). That year, the court recorded 33.57%. EOIR data through 2026-08-31; past records do not predict an individual case.

## Source record coverage

Dated asylum records and recorded grants or denials are available. Explore them by court and fiscal year below.

- State: available
- Scope: source_edition_all_courts_all_stored_dates
- Cutoff: 2026-08-31
- Identity: unconfirmed; linked; source_code_association_not_decision_authorship
- source_proceedings: 42,394
- asylum_proceedings: 2,523
- excluded_case_type: 64
- excluded_case_join: 0
- excluded_conflicting_outcomes: 3
- eligible_asylum: 2,456
- missing_completion: 0
- invalid_completion: 0
- after_cutoff: 0
- dated_asylum: 2,456
- missing_outcome: 32
- missing_outcome_and_date: 0
- dated_missing_outcome: 32
- grants: 384
- denials: 943

Coverage is independent of the summary period and all current record filters.
Missing completion dates and missing outcomes are independent and may overlap; do not add them.
A blank field does not establish pending status, lack of a decision or dates of service.

- Judge code: WAD
- Not on the official EOIR court listing checked 2026-09-16
- Recorded grant share, FY2017, Elizabeth: 26.21% (27 grants, 76 denials, N 103; 95% interval 18.69%–35.45%)
- Elizabeth, same period: 33.57% (N 855)
- United States: no national figure is published for this period
- Records at 8 courts, FY1991–FY2018 (50 court-years); courts are not pooled

## How to read these figures

- A judge code identifies the assigned judge; these records do not prove who decided each application.
- Courts are shown separately and never pooled.
- A recorded grant share is grants divided by grants plus denials; other outcomes are outside the denominator.
- Past records do not predict an individual case.

## Sources

- Page: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/walter-a-durling-wad
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/walter-a-durling-wad.json
- EOIR CASE data: https://fileshare.eoir.justice.gov/EOIR%20Case%20Data.zip
- Judge record files and checks: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2/manifest.json
- Methodology: https://asylumcompass.com/methodology#historical-grant-share
- eoir:judge-records: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2)
- eoir:judge-coverage: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-source-coverage-manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-judge-source-coverage-v1)
- eoir:court-history: https://asylumcompass.com/history-data/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-population-history-v1)
- eoir:national: https://asylumcompass.com/data/eoir-2026-08-court-dispositions-v5/manifest.json (eoir-2026-08-court-dispositions-v5)
- eoir:judge-directory: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings
- License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Cite as: AsylumCompass. “Walter A. Durling: historical immigration judge code records.” https://asylumcompass.com/judge/walter-a-durling-wad. EOIR data through 2026-08-31.