Immigration judge Nicholas A. Martz
EOIR records Nicholas A. Martz as a serving immigration judge, code NAM, with 1,838 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 490 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 84 were granted (17.1%) and 406 denied.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 1,838
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 3.5% decided in absentia
- 374
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 17.1%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 84 granted of 490 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 37.3% granted
- 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
- The Charlotte, NC court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 11.8% granted
- 717 of 6,077 asylum applications decided
For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 84 asylum applications and denied 406 — 17.1% of those decided. A further 499 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Nicholas A. Martz completed 443 proceedings in FY2025, against 5 in FY2016
Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year
The figures behind this chart
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 443 | 17 | 20 | 228 | 114 |
| FY2024 | 322 | 36 | 18 | 64 | 131 |
| FY2023 | 442 | 5 | 25 | 51 | 114 |
| FY2022 | 393 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 95 |
| FY2021 | 238 | 0 | 11 | 42 | 45 |
| FY2020 | 286 | 14 | 35 | 153 | 38 |
| FY2019 | 599 | 205 | 36 | 120 | 103 |
| FY2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2016 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.
Where the proceedings were
The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.
Sources
- EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · retrieved September 1, 2026
- EOIR immigration judges and courts
Data retrieved