Immigration judge Paul Grussendorf

EOIR records Paul Grussendorf as a former immigration judge, code PG, with 2,390 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2005 and 51.7% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,390
Proceedings completed, FY2001–2005: 2.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 51.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2001–2004: 179 granted of 346 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2001 to 2004, this judge granted 179 asylum applications and denied 167 — 51.7% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 275 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Paul Grussendorf, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2005	1	0	0	0	0
FY2004	221	6	7	16	25
FY2003	911	21	24	58	85
FY2002	725	2	73	42	100
FY2001	532	22	75	51	65
FY2000	697	79	87	93	94
FY1999	779	153	92	67	133
FY1998	849	130	140	26	140
FY1997	302	78	27	16	39
FY1996	4	1	0	2	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 Paul Grussendorf completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	2,805
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	2,121
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	83
Hagatna, GU (AGA)	15

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