DEN

Case Insights: DEN

The DEN immigration court, based in , , has processed 58,536 recorded cases in the DOJ EOIR dataset. Of those, 39,902 resulted in relief granted (68.2%), 134 were denied (0.2%), and 18,500 fell into other dispositions such as administrative closures, changes of venue, or withdrawals (31.6%). The court has 18 immigration judges on record, whose individual caseloads and outcome patterns shape the court-wide averages shown above.

Between fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2025, the grant rate at DEN rose by 45.3 percentage points, moving from 44.2% to 89.5%. That window spans 11 fiscal years of reported data, covering shifts in bench composition, policy guidance, and nationality mix. The year-by-year table lower on this page shows the underlying annual case volume for every year in the series.

Outcomes vary substantially judge-to-judge. Judge ARK has the largest recorded caseload at 7,615 decisions (67.8% grant rate). The spread between the highest-grant and lowest-grant judges at this court is 54.9 percentage points — TRW at 87.1% versus EHM at 32.2%. These differences reflect case mix, nationality assignments, and docket type rather than any single factor, and they are why EOIR cautions readers against treating any judge's rate as predictive of an individual case.