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From FY2021 to FY2025, 15 of 206 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code DMP at Houston – S. Gessner Road were grants (7.28%) and 191 were denials (92.72%). In the same years, the court recorded 8.68% and the national figure was 37.33%. EOIR data through 2026-08-31; past records do not predict an individual case.

Recorded grant share · Houston – S. Gessner Road · HSG

Grants 15 · Denials 191 · N 206
95% interval: 4.46%–11.67%

Judge code DMP
7.28%N 206
Houston – S. Gessner Road
8.68%N 5,044
United States · all courts
37.33%N 367,995

Among comparable judge codes at this court

13 judge codes at this court have 100 or more grant-or-denial records in FY2021–FY2025. Their recorded grant shares range from 3.30% to 22.13%; the median is 7.28%.
FY2026 so far
4.85%165 records through 2026-08-31 · court: 1.72%
Record coverage
5 courts with recordsFY2015–FY2026 · 13 court-years · Courts are not pooled
Hearing dates on calendar
486 master · 1,716 individualHouston – S. Gessner Road · proceedings with hearing dates, 2026-09–2029-08Hearing schedule
Data through
2026-08-31EOIR records · official listing: Houston – S. Gessner Road, checked 2026-09-16Data and sources

Historical outcomes by court

Each row is a fiscal year at the court stored on the dated record. Courts are not pooled; an official listing never moves old results to a new court. Small groups remain visible and are labeled.

Judge figures group saved asylum outcomes by the judge code on each EOIR proceeding. The code identifies the assigned judge; these records do not verify who personally made every application decision. How judge figures work

Recorded grant share by fiscal year at Houston – S. Gessner Road

0%10%20%30%40%50%FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY20260.00%12.50%6.10%7.48%4.85%0.00%4.76%0.00%4.84%12.44%8.95%14.63%12.23%3.29%1.72%37.13%46.12%47.28%43.52%23.13%
  • Judge code DMP
  • Houston – S. Gessner Road
  • United States · all courts
National figures are published for FY2021–FY2025. A broken ring marks a value from fewer than 100 records.
Recorded grant and denial outcomes · EOIR dated records
Completion FYRecorded grant shareTotal (N)Grant recordsDenial records95% interval
Houston – S. Gessner Road · HSGExplore this court's full context
FY2026Partial year4.85%16581572.48%–9.27%
FY20257.48%1078993.84%–14.06%
FY20246.10%Small sample825772.63%–13.49%
FY202312.50%Small sample162143.50%–36.02%
FY20210.00%Small sample1010.00%–79.35%
FY20150.00%Small sample1010.00%–79.35%
LaSalle · JNAExplore this court's full context
FY2026Partial year0.00%Small sample606<0.01%–39.03%
FY20250.00%Small sample260260.00%–12.87%
Conroe · CICExplore this court's full context
FY2026Partial year0.00%Small sample2020.00%–65.76%
Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street · ATLExplore this court's full context
FY20250.00%Small sample1010.00%–79.35%
Houston – Greenspoint Park · HGPExplore this court's full context
FY202321.21%Small sample3372610.68%–37.75%
FY202237.50%Small sample1661018.48%–61.36%
FY20210.00%Small sample2020.00%–65.76%

Small sample: fewer than 100 grant or denial records. This share can swing widely.

These records do not predict an individual result or measure judge quality. A person may have more than one proceeding.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2 · Source files and checks · Attribution details

Historical grant and denial records by nationality

Nationality groups count grant and denial proceedings in FY2021–FY2025, not people.

The dated results have a different coverage period and do not contain individual nationality. Small groups can change sharply.

Recorded judge × court × nationality · FY2021–FY2025 and each fiscal year
Recorded nationalityFY2021–FY2025 · pooledTotal (N)Court · same nationalityFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021
Houston – S. Gessner Road
Honduras0.00%Small sample402.60% · N 1,0760 / 180 / 190 / 3——
Cuba2.94%Small sample349.51% · N 5360 / 191 / 120 / 3——
Venezuela9.38%Small sample3216.05% · N 6481 / 202 / 80 / 4——
El Salvador5.00%Small sample204.10% · N 9020 / 110 / 51 / 4——
Nicaragua0.00%Small sample205.19% · N 3660 / 40 / 16———
Mexico0.00%Small sample161.13% · N 3540 / 70 / 9———
Colombia0.00%Small sample112.86% · N 2800 / 70 / 4———
Guatemala0.00%Small sample82.79% · N 3590 / 8————
Romania0.00%Small sample417.24% · N 29—0 / 4———
Turkiye100.00%Small sample367.44% · N 433 / 3————
Pakistan100.00%Small sample243.75% · N 162 / 2————
Afghanistan100.00%Small sample160.00% · N 20—1 / 1———
Azerbaijan100.00%Small sample1100.00% · N 11 / 1————
Belgium0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 1—0 / 1———
Chile0.00%Small sample125.00% · N 4—0 / 1———
Ecuador0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 100 / 1————
Equatorial Guinea100.00%Small sample125.00% · N 41 / 1————
India0.00%Small sample125.00% · N 24——0 / 1——
Italy0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 1—0 / 1———
Jordan0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 80 / 1————
Morocco0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 10 / 1————
Nepal100.00%Small sample1100.00% · N 2—1 / 1———
Niger0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 30 / 1————
Peru0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 170 / 1————
Senegal0.00%Small sample115.38% · N 130 / 1————
Uganda100.00%Small sample1100.00% · N 1——1 / 1——
Vietnam0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 5————0 / 1
Houston – Greenspoint Park
El Salvador16.67%Small sample122.64% · N 1,440——1 / 71 / 5—
Honduras18.18%Small sample112.59% · N 2,784——0 / 52 / 40 / 2
Mexico0.00%Small sample101.66% · N 1,144——0 / 70 / 3—
Colombia100.00%Small sample53.14% · N 574——5 / 5——
China33.33%Small sample319.23% · N 52——1 / 3——
Nicaragua0.00%Small sample310.34% · N 706——0 / 3——
Cuba0.00%Small sample216.97% · N 778——0 / 2——
Kenya50.00%Small sample250.00% · N 2———1 / 2—
Egypt100.00%Small sample130.00% · N 10———1 / 1—
Guatemala0.00%Small sample10.58% · N 513——0 / 1——
Venezuela100.00%Small sample121.75% · N 1,168———1 / 1—
LaSalle
China0.00%Small sample911.58% · N 1900 / 9————
Ethiopia0.00%Small sample37.81% · N 640 / 3————
Afghanistan0.00%Small sample234.38% · N 960 / 2————
Nepal0.00%Small sample26.38% · N 470 / 2————
Armenia0.00%Small sample117.39% · N 460 / 1————
Brazil0.00%Small sample10.00% · N 270 / 1————
Cameroon0.00%Small sample146.28% · N 1210 / 1————
Equatorial Guinea0.00%Small sample112.50% · N 80 / 1————
Guatemala0.00%Small sample10.91% · N 1100 / 1————
India0.00%Small sample14.30% · N 930 / 1————
Pakistan0.00%Small sample112.12% · N 330 / 1————
Somalia0.00%Small sample120.37% · N 540 / 1————
Sudan0.00%Small sample19.52% · N 210 / 1————
Turkiye0.00%Small sample117.46% · N 1260 / 1————
Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
India0.00%Small sample112.00% · N 1500 / 1————

Small sample: fewer than 100 grant or denial records. This share can swing widely. Each fiscal year shows grants / N; — means no grant or denial record that year.

Judge means the code saved on the proceeding, not independently verified decision authorship. Flags are visual aids for mapped source categories; historical, unknown and non-geographic categories remain text-only.

EOIR CASE nationality aggregates · eoir-2026-08-nationality-complete-v1 · Download complete counts

Hearing schedule

One proceeding record is not necessarily a separate hearing session.

Houston – S. Gessner Road · HSG · All proceedings · 2026-09–2029-08

Asylum-associated records are a subset of All proceedings.

Schedule display range: 2026-09–2029-08 (36 months)

Same count scale for both hearing types. Browse horizontally to see all 36 months.

Proceedings

Master Calendar Hearings

Individual / Merits Hearings

Months with no retained records show 0.

Monthly counts are available for all recorded courts below.

Conroe · CIC

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Houston – Greenspoint Park · HGP

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Houston – S. Gessner Road · HSG

Monthly counts

David M. Paxton · DMP · Houston – S. Gessner Road · HSG · 2026-09–2029-08 · All proceedings · Asylum-associated proceedings · Proceedings with recorded hearing dates · EOIR · 2026-08 edition
MonthAll proceedings · Master proceedingsAll proceedings · Individual proceedingsAsylum-associated proceedings · Master proceedingsAsylum-associated proceedings · Individual proceedings
2026-092866417660
2026-1093777268
2026-1146413136
2026-1260373533
2027-01058055
2027-02058053
2027-03083072
2027-04072067
2027-05071062
2027-06062058
2027-07062058
2027-08077064
2027-09059056
2027-10067065
2027-11052048
2027-12043043
2028-01067065
2028-02066061
2028-03170164
2028-04069067
2028-05076067
2028-06062060
2028-07060060
2028-08071066
2028-09055052
2028-10073071
2028-11038035
2028-12026026
2029-010000
2029-020000
2029-030000
2029-040000
2029-050000
2029-060000
2029-070000
2029-080000

Retained: 2,202Excluded: 802Unable to confirm: 4Source files and checks

LaSalle · JNA

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0Source files and checks

Dated result records

Nationality and representation selections do not filter this list. Case identifiers and personal attributes are not included.

Results for the current selection

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These dates belong to proceedings associated with the recorded judge code. They do not establish when that person served or who made the application decision.

Monthly record distribution for this selection

Filtered records by court and fiscal year

All eight saved result categories · same filters as the result list
Historical record courtFiscal yearGrantedDeniedRecorded as abandonedRecorded as withdrawnRecorded as not adjudicatedRecorded as administratively closedOther recorded categoriesNo application result recordedTotal records

Each row totals its eight categories using the current filters. Fiscal years run from 10-01 through 09-30.

One row per eligible proceeding · latest completion date first
Proceeding completion dateHistorical record courtSaved application result

Counts use stored proceeding completion dates and judge codes. Later source releases may revise earlier records.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · eoir-2026-08-judge-records-v2 · Source files and checks

Recorded BIA appeals associated with this judge code

These records are linked to proceedings carrying this EOIR judge code in the 2026-08 source snapshot. The data do not establish that the coded judge personally issued the decision under BIA review.

Historical decision FY2021–FY2025 pooled · respondent-filed appeals (A)

Denominator: respondent-filed BIA IJ Case Appeal events with an exact proceeding link and stored judge code, with a recorded disposition during the displayed period.

Respondent-filed recorded BIA appeal events during FY2021–FY2025
Appeal events (denominator)DIS · recorded dismissal/affirmanceREM · remand as recordedSUS · appeal sustained as recordedOther · mixed recorded dispositions
36120024

Small sample: N is below 100. Counts remain visible; a few events can change the pattern substantially.

Questions about these records

Is this the judge’s asylum approval or denial rate?

It is the recorded grant share: of 206 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code DMP at Houston – S. Gessner Road in FY2021–FY2025, 15 were grants (7.28%) and 191 were denials (92.72%).

Withdrawals, abandonment, administrative closure and other outcomes are outside this denominator. The judge code identifies the assigned judge; it does not prove who decided each application.

Why do other websites show a different number?

Publications count different things. This page counts asylum applications that ended in a grant or a denial in EOIR’s public CASE data, by fiscal year, at the court stored on each proceeding, and never pools courts.

Other reports may count other relief, such as withholding of removal or protection under the Convention Against Torture, count decisions rather than proceedings, combine courts or use other years. Compare the period, the population and N before comparing percentages.

Why are courts listed separately?

Each record keeps the court stored on its proceeding. This judge code has grant or denial records at 5 courts. They are shown separately and never pooled, and the official listing does not move older records to a new court.

Why is FY2026 marked as a partial year?

Fiscal year 2026 runs from 2025-10-01 to 2026-09-30, and the source data end on 2026-08-31. FY2026 figures cover only part of the year, so they are not compared with complete years.

What does a small sample mean here?

When fewer than 100 grant or denial records stand behind a share, one or two decisions can move it by several percentage points. Such figures are marked † or labeled as a small sample, and the 95% interval shows how wide the uncertainty is.

Where does this judge hear cases now?

EOIR’s official hearing directory, checked 2026-09-16, lists this name at Houston – S. Gessner Road.

Under this judge code, the 2026-08 EOIR edition records hearing dates from 2026-09 to 2029-08 at Houston – S. Gessner Road: 486 master and 1,716 individual proceedings.

A listing or a scheduled date does not establish a sole duty station.

Can these numbers predict my case?

No. They describe past records under a judge code. The outcome of a case depends on its own facts, evidence and law. For advice about your case, talk to a qualified lawyer or accredited representative.

Data and sources

Source cutoff: · eoir-2026-08-judge-source-coverage-v1

Dated asylum records and recorded grants or denials are available by court and fiscal year.

Result record coverage

10,496Associated proceeding records
4,679Proceedings linked to asylum applications
2,555Eligible dated asylum records
458Dated grant or denial records

All courts and all stored dates in this source edition. These coverage counts do not change with the result-list filters.

Historical record courts
11
Earliest recorded completion FY
FY2015
Latest recorded completion FY
FY2026 · Partial year
Why some source records are outside the dated results
  • 2,115 eligible asylum records have no completion date.
  • 2,666 eligible asylum records have no application result; 556 of them appear in the dated list. 2,110 records lack both a usable completion date and an application result. The missing-date and missing-result counts overlap.
  • 9 asylum-linked proceedings have conflicting saved application results.

A blank date or result does not establish a pending case, an undecided application, or the absence of a decision. Missing dates are not assigned to an assumed fiscal year.

All eligible dated result categories are included through the source cutoff, without aggregate suppression filters.

Source cutoff: 2026-08-31 · FY2026 is incomplete. Earlier stored dates may predate a judge’s appointment because assignment and saved completion date describe different events.

Nationality and representation selections do not filter this list. Case identifiers and personal attributes are not included.

Available historical coverage

Source coverage includes all normalized dated records for this identity. It is not verified decision authorship or a complete case history.

Coverage counting rules

Counts describe stored proceedings associated with the judge code, not unique cases, people, or verified decision authorship. Asylum applications are combined per proceeding using the same joins and conflict rules as the dated list.

4,670 asylum-linked proceedings meet the proceeding-type, case-link and result-consistency rules. These eligible records split into missing dates, invalid dates, dates after the cutoff, and dated records through the cutoff.

The dated list includes all saved result categories, including a blank result. Grant share uses only dated grants divided by dated grants plus denials; other categories are excluded.

These are saved results on proceedings assigned to the selected judge in EOIR data, not independently verified decision authorship. The application result has no separate decision timestamp. Completion dates may reflect a different event or later edits.

Each row represents one eligible proceeding after duplicate application rows are combined. Identical dates and results can appear multiple times. A person may have multiple proceedings. Within-day order does not indicate the sequence of decisions.

The public timeline includes all eight saved result categories and all stored completion years through the source cutoff. Conflicting application outcomes and inconsistent case joins remain excluded. Complete records can reconstruct counts hidden in legacy aggregate tables; those tables no longer provide a non-reconstruction guarantee.

Official court listing

Directory checked: EOIR hearing directory

On the checked official listing

An official listing may include supervisory or multiple-court assignments; it does not establish a sole duty station.

Hearing schedule sources

Schedule filtering and source checks

The 2026-08 EOIR edition is grouped using a source cutoff of 2026-08-31. Counts describe proceeding records with retained future hearing dates, grouped by the judge and court codes stored on each schedule record. Records with a handling reason and other excluded records are kept outside the counts; records that cannot be confirmed are listed separately. All proceedings includes the reliably identified asylum-associated subset.

Later recorded hearing dates are included in the source coverage summary.

All proceedings · future hearing dates through 2036-08-31

These source coverage counts include all proceedings and do not change with the proceedings filter above.

Conroe

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0

Raw Master and Individual records
0
Unconfirmed proportion
Not calculable
Historical schedule records
185
Other schedule types
62
Reliable asylum association
51
No identifiable asylum association
134

Houston – Greenspoint Park

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0

Raw Master and Individual records
0
Unconfirmed proportion
Not calculable
Historical schedule records
5,297
Other schedule types
16
Reliable asylum association
2,018
No identifiable asylum association
3,279

Houston – S. Gessner Road

Retained: 2,202Excluded: 802Unable to confirm: 4

Raw Master and Individual records
3,008
Unconfirmed proportion
0.13%
Recorded handling reason
802
Multiple future records without a handling reason
4
Historical schedule records
17,793
Future schedule records
3,008
Other schedule types
6
Reliable asylum association
12,410
No identifiable asylum association
8,391
Schedule and proceeding judge codes differ
1

LaSalle

Retained: 0Excluded: 0Unable to confirm: 0

Raw Master and Individual records
0
Unconfirmed proportion
Not calculable
Historical schedule records
1,384
Other schedule types
119
Reliable asylum association
899
No identifiable asylum association
485
View schedule counting rules
Source files, versions and checks

BIA appeal sources

BIA scope and counting rules

These are historical pooled counts, not a judge score or a current pattern. This product has no annual judge-code breakdown. DIS does not prove this judge was affirmed; REM is not an asylum grant; SUS is not a final asylum outcome.

Recorded BIA disposition patterns can change over time. These FY2021–FY2025 counts are not a permanent characteristic of this judge code. Changes may coincide with law, policy, administration, BIA composition, case mix or backlog; these descriptive data do not establish a cause.

All-party source coverage is separate from the respondent-filed table. National parent appeal events: 119,252 · Linked to a stored judge code: 119,155.

Respondent-filed source events: 109,995 · Linked to a stored judge code: 109,915 · Published respondent-filed events: 67,156 · Respondent-filed events with identity limitations: 42,759.

Judge code: DMP · Stored source field: B_TblProceeding.IJ_CODE · Population: bia-decided-stored-judge-chronology-clean-1.

Disposition date basis: tblAppeal.datBIADecision · Historical period: 2020-10-01–2025-09-30 · Source cutoff: 2026-08-31.

The stored code is an association in the snapshot, not proof of decision authorship or assignment when the original decision was issued. Today’s judge directory and court listing describe current context only.

Source versions and checks

Coverage and source versions are listed separately from publication, acquisition and later checks. A check does not extend the records beyond their cutoff.

EOIR public CASE data

Used on this page: Dated results, historical outcomes and saved hearing schedules

Historical result coverageFY2015–FY2026 · Partial year: FY2026

Source edition2026-08

Source snapshot cutoff

The first and last available fiscal years bound this range; intervening years may have no records. Saved hearing dates and BIA disposition periods have separate coverage.

Standard comparison periodFY2021–FY2025

Source obtained or reviewed for this edition

Official source recheck ·

Source reachable at the last check; its contents have not been compared with this edition yet

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