Immigration judge David C. Koelsch

EOIR records David C. Koelsch as a serving immigration judge, code DK1, with 6,747 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 65.5% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

6,747
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 18.1% decided in absentia; 211
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 65.5%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 911 granted of 1,390 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 911 asylum applications and denied 479 — 65.5% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,182 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge David C. Koelsch, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	2,108	609	33	228	154
FY2024	1,563	282	177	111	244
FY2023	1,627	287	213	46	368
FY2022	739	24	219	25	271
FY2021	710	21	269	69	145
FY2020	1,184	267	284	284	174
FY2019	1,636	652	240	226	234
FY2018	179	45	12	58	32
FY2017	37	6	0	0	6
FY2016	6	0	0	0	1

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

Immigration courts where David C. Koelsch completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	4,125
Hyattsville, MD (HYA)	3,263
Detroit, MI (DET)	2,529
Miami, FL (MIA)	23
Annandale, VA (WAS)	18
Houston, TX (HOU)	15
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	13
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	9
Conroe, TX (CIC)	7
Dallas, TX (DAL)	7
New York, NY (NYC)	6
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	6
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	6
Sterling, VA (STE)	6
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	5
Houston, TX (HGP)	5
Imperial, CA (IMP)	4
Denver, CO (DEN)	3
El Paso, TX (ELP)	3
Las Vegas, NV (LVG)	3
Newark, NJ (NEW)	3
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	3
Boston, MA (BOS)	2
Chicago, IL (CHI)	2
Jena, LA (JNA)	2
Miami, FL (KRO)	2
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	2
New York, NY (NYV)	2
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	2
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	2
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	1
Aurora, CO (AUR)	1
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Chelmsford, MA (CHE)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
El Paso, TX (EPD)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	1
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	1
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	1
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	1
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	1
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	1
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	1

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 September 1, 2026