What is Judge DK1's grant rate?

Immigration Judge DK1 has an overall grant rate of 61.6% across 1,631 decisions at the Baltimore Immigration Court. The denial rate is 38.4%.

Where does Judge DK1 serve?

Judge DK1 serves at the Baltimore Immigration Court. You can view all judges and court-wide statistics on the court page.

How many cases has Judge DK1 decided?

Judge DK1 has decided 1,631 cases on record in DOJ EOIR data, including 1,004 grants and 627 denials.

Does a judge's grant rate predict my case outcome?

No. Judge DK1's 61.6% grant-leaning history aggregates many case types and nationalities, your merits hearing depends on your facts, relief sought, and representation. Always consult a licensed immigration attorney.

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Immigration Judge DK1

Name: Immigration Judge DK1 - Case Outcome Data
Creator: PlainImmigration
Published: 2025-09-30
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 1,631 merits decisions place Judge DK1 among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,631 decisions FY2015–2025 (#63 of 1.7K).

Compiled by PlainImmigration

Data updated 2026-09-05

61.6%
Asylum grant rate: 38.4%
Asylum denial rate: 1,631
Asylum decisions

Judge DK1 in one line

Judge DK1's asylum grant rate is 61.6% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 1,631 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

61.6%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate: 1,631
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume: +13.3 pp
vs. national average

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"DK1" is the anonymized judge code DOJ's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) assigns in its public case-data release, not a verified public identity. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset, so this code should not be read as confirming, or attributing these statistics to, any specific named individual. See our methodology for detail.

This judge's merits outcome mix

1,631merits decisions FY2015–2025

Granted1,004(62%)Denied627(38%)

Statistical data only. Judge DK1's 61.6% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge DK1 vs all tracked IJs by asylum grant rate

Where this judge's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked immigration judge (a leniency measure, not a quality ranking)

61.6% 344th of 1696 higher than 1,352 of 1,696 judges

Immigration judges, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Year-by-Year Outcomes

Historical asylum merits decisions for this anonymized EOIR judge code. Annual rows can be thin, and are not a forecast of any future case.

FY	Decisions	Grants	Denials	Grant %
2018	65	22	43	33.8%
2019	501	275	226	54.9%
2020	613	333	280	54.3%
2021	346	277	69	80.1%
2022	104	95	9	91.3%
2023	2	2	0	100.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DK1's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DK1's 61.6% grant rate, an upper-third corpus rate, with THIN/LIGHT/FULL/HEAVY merits stamps on each peer row.

1,695 other immigration judges nationwide have a tracked asylum grant rate; the 6 closest matches to Judge DK1 are shown here.

IJ	Grant	Δ vs here	Merits	Stamp	Court
BAN	61.6%	same	2,530	HEAVY	New York - Federal Plaza
ERT	61.5%	-0.1 pp	1,081	FULL	Denver
SJS	61.5%	-0.1 pp	792	FULL	Los Angeles - Van Nuys Boulevard
WAH	61.5%	-0.1 pp	96	THIN	Phoenix
VPG	61.8%	+0.2 pp	76	THIN	Conroe
GAM	61.4%	-0.2 pp	399	LIGHT	New York - Federal Plaza

Same-bench poles at Baltimore

Same-bench spread at Baltimore: Judge DK1 runs 61.6% - above both the 48.3% national average and several benchmates with at least 20 merits.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other courts' busiest IJ codes by merits volume, a caseload peer set orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) chamber above.

IJ AAS · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,628 merits · 79.4% grant
IJ PSO · San Francisco Immigration Court · 1,627 merits · 55.6% grant
IJ JHB · New York - Broadway Immigration Court · 1,626 merits · 32.8% grant
IJ JSL · Kansas City Immigration Court · 1,620 merits · 37.7% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DK1: 1,631 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

Read our methodology - how Judge DK1's 1,631-decision EOIR row is sourced, computed, and verified.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DK1 at Baltimore Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 1,631. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 1,631 decisions FY2015–2025 (#63 of 1.7K).

Judge DK1's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 1,631, not hand-typed editorial values. justice.gov/eoir/foia-library-0

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Judge DK1's grant/denial/merits figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.