Immigration judge · Fort Snelling Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KLH

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: Judge KLH's 65.1% grant rate is among the highest in the tracked IJ corpus. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 665 decisions FY2015–2025 (#389 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

65.1%
Asylum grant rate
34.9%
Asylum denial rate
665
Asylum decisions

Judge KLH in one line

Judge KLH's asylum grant rate is 65.1% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 665 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

65.1%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
665
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+16.8 pp
vs. national average
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"KLH" 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 KLH's 65.1% grant-leaning history still mixes case types and nationalities, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge KLH 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)

65.1% 281st of 1696 higher than 1,415 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 %
2015 1 0 1 0.0%
2017 5 2 3 40.0%
2018 52 38 14 73.1%
2019 104 52 52 50.0%
2020 74 49 25 66.2%
2021 17 12 5 70.6%
2022 87 73 14 83.9%
2023 145 97 48 66.9%
2024 150 97 53 64.7%
2025 30 13 17 43.3%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KLH's grant rate

This chamber tracks nationwide IJs nearest Judge KLH's 65.1% 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 KLH are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
YG1 65.1% same 1,222 FULL San Antonio
ENA 65.1% same 341 LIGHT Sterling
BAB 65.2% +0.1 pp 1,223 FULL Denver
EGL 65.2% +0.1 pp 560 FULL Chicago
GRH 65.2% +0.1 pp 46 THIN Dallas
MGK 64.9% -0.2 pp 833 FULL New York - Varick Street

Same-bench poles at Fort Snelling

Same-bench spread at Fort Snelling: Judge KLH runs 65.1% - 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 RC1 · Annandale Immigration Court · 666 merits · 30.2% grant
  • IJ XFR · Sterling Immigration Court · 667 merits · 51.7% grant
  • IJ PDF · Seattle Immigration Court · 667 merits · 47.2% grant
  • IJ RPL · Conroe Immigration Court · 663 merits · 19.5% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code KLH: 665 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 KLH at Fort Snelling Immigration Court; asylum grant rate 65.1%. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 665 decisions FY2015–2025 (#389 of 1.7K).

Judge KLH's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - asylum grant rate 65.1%, 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 KLH'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.