Immigration judge Elliot M. Kaplan

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Elliot M. Kaplan
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Elliot M. Kaplan as a former immigration judge, code ETK, with 901 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2024. Of the 194 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2023, 138 were granted (71.1%) and 56 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 46.1% at the Annandale, VA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 45.2% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

901
Proceedings completed, FY2020–2024: 9.5% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 71.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2023: 138 granted of 194 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2023)

Every immigration court in the country: 45.2% granted; 73,893 of 163,522 asylum applications decided
The Annandale, VA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 46.1% granted; 2,284 of 4,953 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 3 fiscal years from 2021 to 2023, this judge granted 138 asylum applications and denied 56 — 71.1% of those decided. A further 406 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Elliot M. Kaplan completed 2 proceedings in FY2024, against 2 in FY2015

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 Elliot M. Kaplan completed 2 proceedings in FY2024, against 2 in FY2015. 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
FY2024	2	0	0	0	0
FY2023	259	9	29	11	150
FY2022	520	61	105	33	231
FY2021	112	14	4	12	25
FY2020	8	2	0	0	0
FY2019	0	0	0	0	0
FY2018	0	0	0	0	0
FY2017	0	0	0	0	0
FY2016	0	0	0	0	0
FY2015	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

Immigration courts where Elliot M. Kaplan completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Annandale, VA (WAS)	665
Newark, NJ (NEW)	183
Conroe, TX (CIC)	16
Boston, MA (BOS)	15
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	5
Houston, TX (HSG)	5
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	5
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	4
Sterling, VA (STE)	3
West Valley, UT (SLC)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	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