13 judges · CO
The Denver, CO Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 1.5% across 34,157 decided cases. The court has 13 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Denver, CO Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 1.5% in the current AsylumTracker dataset. Court-level statistics aggregate judges and cases assigned to that court, so the court average can differ sharply from any one judge's profile.
High-volume judge profiles at this court include Cordova, David J. (19,782 total cases), Livingston, Donn L. (15,629 total cases), and Gardzelewski, Ivan E. (7,491 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (7,215 decided, 18.5% grant rate), Colombia (5,226 decided, 6.9% grant rate), and Venezuela (4,969 decided, 5.1% grant rate).
Asylum grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Procedural outcomes are separated so users can distinguish merits decisions from docket-management outcomes.
This page uses public EOIR records last updated 2026-05-08. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cordova, David J. | 17.9% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Livingston, Donn L. | 28.7% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gardzelewski, Ivan E. | 7.6% | 369 | 4,455 | 4,824 |
| Corrin, Melanie K. | 10.6% | 410 | 3,465 | 3,875 |
| Trujillo, Eileen R. | 25.2% | 481 | 1,431 | 1,912 |
| Wood, Tyler | 2.1% | 87 | 4,018 | 4,105 |
| Calcador, Kerri | 12.1% | 357 | 2,583 | 2,940 |
| Burgie, Brea C. | 16.4% | 542 | 2,759 | 3,301 |
| Koppenhofer, Andrea | 10.9% | 264 | 2,169 | 2,433 |
| Visiting Judge 2 | 0.0% | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| O'Hare, Donald C. | 20.4% | 159 | 620 | 779 |
| Neal, David L. | 16.4% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Visiting Judge 24 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 18.5% | 1,338 | 5,877 | 7,215 |
| Colombia | 6.9% | 359 | 4,867 | 5,226 |
| Venezuela | 5.1% | 252 | 4,717 | 4,969 |
| Nicaragua | 3.3% | 151 | 4,424 | 4,575 |
| Honduras | 5.3% | 218 | 3,867 | 4,085 |
| Guatemala | 9.9% | 290 | 2,625 | 2,915 |
| El Salvador | 21.6% | 350 | 1,267 | 1,617 |
| Peru | 6.9% | 101 | 1,365 | 1,466 |
| Cuba | 15.1% | 34 | 191 | 225 |
| Ecuador | 1.4% | 3 | 208 | 211 |
| Russia | 67.3% | 134 | 65 | 199 |
| Romania | 10.2% | 20 | 177 | 197 |
| Brazil | 2.6% | 4 | 152 | 156 |
| Turkey | 8.5% | 11 | 118 | 129 |
| China | 65.7% | 65 | 34 | 99 |
| Afghanistan | 24.7% | 21 | 64 | 85 |
| India | 59.0% | 49 | 34 | 83 |
| Ethiopia | 73.7% | 42 | 15 | 57 |
| Eritrea | 86.0% | 43 | 7 | 50 |
| Libya | 66.0% | 31 | 16 | 47 |
| Ghana | 48.8% | 21 | 22 | 43 |
| Dominican Republic | 5.3% | 2 | 36 | 38 |
| Vietnam | 53.3% | 16 | 14 | 30 |
| Bolivia | 6.7% | 2 | 28 | 30 |
| Nepal | 70.4% | 19 | 8 | 27 |
| Cameroon | 100.0% | 26 | 0 | 26 |
| Chile | 4.2% | 1 | 23 | 24 |
| Saudi Arabia | 69.6% | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| Nigeria | 63.6% | 14 | 8 | 22 |
| Haiti | 42.9% | 9 | 12 | 21 |
| Mauritania | 65.0% | 13 | 7 | 20 |
| Costa Rica | 5.0% | 1 | 19 | 20 |
| Indonesia | 88.9% | 16 | 2 | 18 |
| Sudan | 61.1% | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| Unknown Nationality | 0.0% | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| Iraq | 76.5% | 13 | 4 | 17 |
| Ukraine | 88.2% | 15 | 2 | 17 |
| Senegal | 21.4% | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| Belarus | 92.3% | 12 | 1 | 13 |
| Uzbekistan | 75.0% | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| Congo | 80.0% | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| Argentina | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Mongolia | 77.8% | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Yemen | 100.0% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Morocco | 83.3% | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Egypt | 100.0% | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Philippines | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Pakistan | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Democratic Republic Of Congo | 80.0% | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Uganda | 100.0% | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| United Kingdom | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Jamaica | 20.0% | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| South Korea | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Panama | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Somalia | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Canada | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| South Africa | 100.0% | 1 | 0 | 1 |