Immigration judge Christopher J. Thielemann
EOIR records Christopher J. Thielemann as a serving immigration judge, code CTN, with 15,041 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 446 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 90 were granted (20.2%) and 356 denied.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 15,041
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 44.1% decided in absentia
- 13,139
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 20.2%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 90 granted of 446 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 Dallas, TX court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 19.2% granted
- 1,042 of 5,429 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 90 asylum applications and denied 356 — 20.2% of those decided. A further 1,782 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Christopher J. Thielemann completed 6,207 proceedings in FY2025, against 2 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 | 6,207 | 2,840 | 21 | 155 | 725 |
| FY2024 | 4,167 | 1,573 | 16 | 46 | 683 |
| FY2023 | 3,321 | 2,111 | 24 | 63 | 208 |
| FY2022 | 877 | 112 | 21 | 55 | 127 |
| FY2021 | 469 | 2 | 8 | 37 | 39 |
| FY2020 | 866 | 258 | 15 | 85 | 81 |
| FY2019 | 527 | 45 | 17 | 120 | 47 |
| FY2018 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2017 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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