Immigration judge David H. Paruch

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge David H. Paruch
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records David H. Paruch as a serving immigration judge, code DHP, with 5,471 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 491 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 211 were granted (43.0%) and 280 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 33.5% at the Detroit, MI court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 37.3% across every immigration court in the country.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

5,471
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 22.4% decided in absentia; 1,413
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 43.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 211 granted of 491 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 Detroit, MI court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 33.5% granted; 1,104 of 3,295 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 211 asylum applications and denied 280 — 43.0% of those decided. A further 835 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge David H. Paruch completed 1,673 proceedings in FY2025, against 913 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

Immigration judge David H. Paruch completed 1,673 proceedings in FY2025, against 913 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.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,673	452	58	96	238
FY2024	1,694	349	47	65	294
FY2023	949	183	59	75	141
FY2022	893	229	29	21	123
FY2021	262	14	18	23	39
FY2020	411	54	23	25	40
FY2019	786	149	21	38	80
FY2018	897	55	6	23	55
FY2017	1,080	79	14	67	97
FY2016	913	18	15	86	129

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 H. Paruch completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Detroit, MI (DET)	14,004
Memphis, TN (MEM)	53
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	14
New York, NY (NYC)	14
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	13
Chicago, IL (CHI)	12
Houston, TX (HOU)	7
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	6
Miami, FL (MIA)	6
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	6
San Diego, CA (SND)	6
El Paso, TX (ELP)	5
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	5
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	4
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	4
Denver, CO (DEN)	3
El Paso, TX (EPD)	3
New York, NY (NYB)	3
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	3
Dallas, TX (DAL)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	2
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	2
Florence, AZ (FLO)	2
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	2
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	1
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	1
Houston, TX (HGP)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Orlando, FL (ORL)	1
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	1
Otero, NM (OTO)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
Seattle, WA (SEA)	1
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	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