Immigration judge · New York - Broadway Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KNL

According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: 766 merits decisions place Judge KNL among the busiest IJ codes in the FOIA release. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 766 decisions FY2015–2025 (#315 of 1.7K).

Data updated 2026-09-05

45.7%
Asylum grant rate
54.3%
Asylum denial rate
766
Asylum decisions

Judge KNL in one line

Judge KNL's asylum grant rate is 45.7% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 766 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

45.7%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
766
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
-2.6 pp
vs. national average
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"KNL" 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. Individual judge grant rates reflect historical case outcomes, case mix, nationalities handled, and legal representation rates all affect these numbers. This is not a prediction for any future case. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge KNL 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)

45.7% 715th of 1696 higher than 981 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 %
2023 66 35 31 53.0%
2024 207 121 86 58.5%
2025 493 194 299 39.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KNL'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 45.7% (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 KNL are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
AKZ 45.7% same 534 FULL Fort Snelling
LFZ 45.7% same 70 THIN Oakdale
CMW 45.7% same 35 THIN Los Angeles - West
EMB 45.7% same 35 THIN Conroe
RR1 45.8% +0.1 pp 201 LIGHT Los Angeles - West
JDL 45.6% -0.1 pp 710 FULL Los Angeles - West

Same-bench poles at New York - Broadway

Highest and lowest asylum grant rates among the other 35 IJs at this court with at least 20 merits decisions. Judge KNL is at 45.7%.

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 LIH · Miami Immigration Court · 767 merits · 56.7% grant
  • IJ LWA · Houston - Smith Street Immigration Court · 770 merits · 29.9% grant
  • IJ MLT · Cleveland Immigration Court · 761 merits · 58.5% grant
  • IJ CSD · San Francisco Immigration Court · 761 merits · 92.4% grant

Heavy-corpus IJ code KNL: 766 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 KNL at New York - Broadway Immigration Court; merits-decision volume 766. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 766 decisions FY2015–2025 (#315 of 1.7K).

Judge KNL's figures are computed from EOIR case-level records - merits-decision volume 766, 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 KNL'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.