Immigration judge · Harlingen Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KFL

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: lead-nationality share at n/a is the most distinctive stamp on Judge KFL's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 35.9% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

35.9%
Asylum grant rate
64.1%
Asylum denial rate
92
Asylum decisions

Judge KFL in one line

Judge KFL's asylum grant rate is 35.9% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 92 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).

35.9%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
92
Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
-12.4 pp
vs. national average
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"KFL" 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 KFL's 64.1% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge KFL 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)

35.9% 960th of 1696 higher than 736 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 %
2020 6 1 5 16.7%
2021 6 5 1 83.3%
2022 79 27 52 34.2%
2023 1 0 1 0.0%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KFL's grant rate

EOIR publishes immigration judges as three-letter codes, not names. This chamber lists nationwide IJs whose asylum grant rate is closest to 35.9% (ABS gap), with a merits-volume stamp so volume is visible without a second identical card grid.

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

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
DCO 35.9% same 599 FULL Denver
HAK 35.9% same 103 LIGHT Chelmsford
HAK 35.9% same 103 LIGHT Chelmsford
SLR 36.0% +0.1 pp 1,905 FULL New York - Broadway
DB 36.0% +0.1 pp 900 FULL Los Angeles - West
KBJ 36.0% +0.1 pp 716 FULL Buffalo

Same-bench poles at Harlingen

Same-bench spread at Harlingen: Judge KFL runs 35.9% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Other thin-volume IJ codes nationwide, caseload peers when merits counts sit below the corpus median.

  • IJ LSY · Chelmsford Immigration Court (Detained) · 92 merits · 37.0% grant
  • IJ JS1 · Boston Immigration Court · 92 merits · 32.6% grant
  • IJ PHE · Port Isabel Immigration Court (Detained) · 92 merits · 8.7% grant
  • IJ CMN · San Francisco Immigration Court · 92 merits · 89.1% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge KFL at Harlingen Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ KFL at Harlingen Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is thin-corpus at 92 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge KFL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - lead-nationality share n/a, 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 KFL'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.