# Judge Donald R. Eller Jr. · Chicago Immigration Court asylum records

In FY2026, 12 of 319 asylum grant-or-denial records under judge code DER at Chicago were grants (3.76%) and 307 were denials (96.24%). That year, the court recorded 12.69% and the national figure was 6.66%. EOIR data through 2026-09-30; past records do not predict an individual case.

## Source record coverage

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

- State: available
- Scope: source_edition_all_courts_all_stored_dates
- Cutoff: 2026-09-30
- Identity: confirmed; linked; source_code_association_not_decision_authorship
- source_proceedings: 5,719
- asylum_proceedings: 1,977
- excluded_case_type: 0
- excluded_case_join: 0
- excluded_conflicting_outcomes: 2
- eligible_asylum: 1,975
- missing_completion: 182
- invalid_completion: 0
- after_cutoff: 0
- dated_asylum: 1,793
- missing_outcome: 348
- missing_outcome_and_date: 178
- dated_missing_outcome: 170
- grants: 122
- denials: 930

Coverage is independent of the summary period and all current record filters.
Missing completion dates and missing outcomes are independent and may overlap; do not add them.
A blank field does not establish pending status, lack of a decision or dates of service.

- Judge code: DER
- Official EOIR court listing (checked 2026-10-24): Fort Worth Immigration Adjudication Center
- Preferred fiscal year: FY2026; state=available; stored court=CHI; dated proceeding records=634
- Recorded grant share, FY2026, Chicago: 3.76% (12 grants, 307 denials, N 319; 95% interval 2.16%–6.46%)
- Chicago, same period: 12.69% (N 5,494)
- United States, same period: 6.66% (N 158,532)
- Among 18 judge codes at this court with at least 100 grant-or-denial records in FY2026: range 0.00%–36.02%, median 8.85%
- Hearing dates recorded in the 2026-09 EOIR edition at Fort Snelling, 2026-10–2029-09: 0 master and 9 individual proceedings
- Records at 26 courts, FY2019–FY2026 (53 court-years); courts are not pooled

## How to read these figures

- A judge code identifies the assigned judge; these records do not prove who decided each application.
- Courts are shown separately and never pooled.
- A recorded grant share is grants divided by grants plus denials; other outcomes are outside the denominator.
- Past records do not predict an individual case.

## Sources

- Page: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/donald-r-eller-jr-der
- Structured data: https://asylumcompass.com/judge/donald-r-eller-jr-der.json
- EOIR CASE data: https://fileshare.eoir.justice.gov/EOIR%20Case%20Data.zip
- Judge record files and checks: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json
- Methodology: https://asylumcompass.com/methodology#historical-grant-share
- eoir:judge-records: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-record-data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:judge-coverage: https://asylumcompass.com/judge-source-coverage/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:court-history: https://asylumcompass.com/history-data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:national: https://asylumcompass.com/data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/manifest.json (eoir-2026-09-case-v1)
- eoir:judge-directory: https://www.justice.gov/eoir/find-immigration-court-and-access-internet-based-hearings
- eoir:hearing-schedules: https://asylumcompass.com/data/eoir-2026-09-case-v1/release-index.json (eoir-2026-09-judge-schedules-v1)
- License: CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

Cite as: AsylumCompass. “Judge Donald R. Eller Jr. · Chicago Immigration Court asylum records.” https://asylumcompass.com/judge/donald-r-eller-jr-der. EOIR data through 2026-09-30.