Immigration court · Denver, CO
Denver Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 48.0 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Denver's bench. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 11,218 decisions FY2015–2025 (#24 of 77).
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 54.8%
- Asylum grant rate
- 45.2%
- Asylum denial rate
- 70,532
- Pending cases
- 28 mo
- Time to decision
Denver in one line
Denver's asylum grant rate is 54.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 11,218 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).
- 54.8%
- Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
- 11,218
- Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
- +6.5 pp
- vs. national average
- 48.0 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Denver Immigration Court sits in the upper third of tracked courts at 54.8% across 11,218 FY2015–2025 merits (6.5 pp above the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 20.0% to 68.0% (48.0 pp) across 17 reported judges at Denver. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
Heavy-corpus court (#24 of 77): peer grids below match on grant rate and merits volume; methodology covers EOIR extract limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
53/100
Denver, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of asylum grant rate, time to decision, and backlog ratio against the full tracked-court corpus. It describes the historical docket, not the odds of any one case, and does not weigh legal representation, case type, or judge assignment.
- Asylum grant rate A- 54.8%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision D 28 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio F 31.5%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Denver
Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Denver (54.8%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Denver Immigration Court vs all courts by asylum merits caseload
Where this court's FY2015–2025 asylum merits-decision count sits among every tracked immigration court (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)
11,218 24th of 77 higher than 53 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more courts. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Denver sits: Fast & Favorable
Each dot is one of the 40 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.2 months) across this set. Denver's own grant rate is 54.8% and its average wait is 27.5 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Denver Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
11,218merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Upper-third court Denver: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 101 | 65.3% |
| FY2016 | 120 | 63.3% |
| FY2017 | 232 | 67.7% |
| FY2018 | 350 | 41.7% |
| FY2019 | 1,001 | 28.2% |
| FY2020 | 1,075 | 36.4% |
| FY2021 | 382 | 55.5% |
| FY2022 | 1,037 | 64.9% |
| FY2023 | 1,419 | 60.6% |
| FY2024 | 2,038 | 54.2% |
| FY2025 | 3,463 | 63.1% |
The judge lottery at Denver Immigration Court
17 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 68.0% (615 decisions) down to 20.0% (30 decisions) - a 48.0-point spread on the same bench. Rates based on smaller decision counts carry more statistical noise.
Judge names below are the anonymized judge codes EOIR assigns in its public case-data release, not verified public identities. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset. See our methodology for detail.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge MWK | 615 | |
| 2 | Judge BAB | 1,223 | |
| 3 | Judge DLL | 123 | |
| 4 | Judge ERT | 1,081 | |
| 5 | Judge ARK | 1,587 | |
| 6 | Judge AKR | 384 | |
| 7 | Judge NMC | 835 | |
| 8 | Judge TRW | 984 | |
| 9 | Judge IEG | 1,475 | |
| 10 | Judge KC1 | 587 | |
| 11 | Judge MKC | 1,228 | |
| 12 | Judge MMT | 45 | |
| 13 | Judge DCO | 599 | |
| 14 | Judge EHM | 57 | |
| 15 | Judge BCM | 117 | |
| 16 | Judge JBE | 58 | |
| 17 | Judge JDA | 30 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Heavy-corpus peers for Denver: ABS(grant-rate) and merits-volume matches outside the same state.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- San Antonio Immigration Court · San Antonio, TX · 54.6% grant · 11,574 merits
- Hyattsville Immigration Court · Hyattsville, MD · 54.4% grant · 11,100 merits
- Philadelphia Immigration Court · Philadelphia, PA · 55.2% grant · 11,412 merits
- Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · Chelmsford, MA · 53.3% grant · 942 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Memphis Immigration Court · Memphis, TN · 11,643 merits · 40.8% grant
- Charlotte Immigration Court · Charlotte, NC · 12,358 merits · 35.3% grant
- Sterling Immigration Court · Sterling, VA · 10,044 merits · 48.8% grant
- Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · Atlanta, GA · 12,430 merits · 39.2% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Heavy-corpus court Denver: 11,218 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Denver's 11,218-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Denver Immigration Court's outcome and grant-rate figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.