Immigration judge · Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court

Immigration Judge KYT

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 KYT's EOIR row. Grant rate sits mid-corpus at 39.0% (below the 48.3% national average).

Data updated 2026-09-05

39.0%
Asylum grant rate
61.0%
Asylum denial rate
403
Asylum decisions

Judge KYT in one line

Judge KYT's asylum grant rate is 39.0% (mid-band grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 403 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (mid-band volume).

39.0%
Asylum grant rate · Mid-band grant rate
403
Merits decisions · Mid-band volume
-9.3 pp
vs. national average
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"KYT" 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 KYT's 61.0% denial-leaning history often tracks case mix and representation gaps, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Judge KYT 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)

39% 879th of 1696 higher than 817 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 48 20 28 41.7%
2022 28 23 5 82.1%
2023 121 35 86 28.9%
2024 180 75 105 41.7%
2025 26 4 22 15.4%

IJ rate-band chamber

Anonymized codes nearest Judge KYT'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 39.0% (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 KYT are shown here.

IJ Grant Δ vs here Merits Stamp Court
BP1 39.0% same 3,770 HEAVY Seattle
FSM 39.0% same 41 THIN Oakdale
JMM 39.1% +0.1 pp 1,010 FULL New York - Federal Plaza
JJO 39.1% +0.1 pp 719 FULL Los Angeles - West
JIG 39.1% +0.1 pp 440 LIGHT Phoenix
ETP 38.9% -0.1 pp 365 LIGHT Orlando

Same-bench poles at Houston - S. Gessner Road

Same-bench spread at Houston - S. Gessner Road: Judge KYT runs 39.0% - below the 48.3% national average among IJs with at least 20 merits here.

Nationwide judges with similar asylum caseload

Immigration judges at other courts with a comparable merits-decision volume, distinct from same-bench grant-rate peers above.

  • IJ LCA · New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court · 403 merits · 64.8% grant
  • IJ PAB · Atlanta - W. Peachtree Street Immigration Court · 401 merits · 29.4% grant
  • IJ AJS · Newark Immigration Court · 401 merits · 54.4% grant
  • IJ ALQ · Hyattsville Immigration Court · 406 merits · 47.5% grant

Data from DOJ EOIR FOIA bulk case data for Judge KYT at Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for IJ KYT at Houston - S. Gessner Road Immigration Court; lead-nationality share n/a. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is mid-band at 403 decisions FY2015–2025.

Judge KYT'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 KYT'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.