Immigration judge · Hyattsville Immigration Court

Immigration Judge DK1

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge DK1's 77.8% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 752 decisions FY2015–2025 (#327 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

77.8%
Asylum grant rate
22.2%
Asylum denial rate
752
Asylum decisions

Judge DK1 in one line

Judge DK1's asylum grant rate is 77.8% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 752 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

77.8%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
752
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+29.5 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.

Statistical data only. Judge DK1's 77.8% 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)

77.8% 130th of 1696 higher than 1,566 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 %
2021 4 4 0 100.0%
2022 150 134 16 89.3%
2023 296 251 45 84.8%
2024 302 196 106 64.9%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge DK1's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge DK1's 77.8% 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
ETK 77.8% same 207 LIGHT Annandale
WMM 77.7% -0.1 pp 265 LIGHT Santa Ana
CPE 77.7% -0.1 pp 103 LIGHT San Francisco
JSI 77.9% +0.1 pp 149 LIGHT Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street
LCF 77.5% -0.3 pp 772 FULL San Francisco
AMO 77.5% -0.3 pp 71 THIN Chelmsford

Same-bench poles at Hyattsville

Same-bench spread at Hyattsville: Judge DK1 runs 77.8% - 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 ASR · Newark Immigration Court · 752 merits · 57.6% grant
  • IJ JOH · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 753 merits · 62.5% grant
  • IJ HH · Santa Ana Immigration Court · 756 merits · 57.8% grant
  • IJ DDP · Cleveland Immigration Court · 758 merits · 54.9% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code DK1: 752 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ DK1 at Hyattsville Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 77.8%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 752 decisions FY2015–2025 (#327 of 1.7K).

Judge DK1's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 77.8%, 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.