Immigration judge · Kansas City Immigration Court
Immigration Judge PD1
38.5% asylum grant rate across 65 merits decisions - below the 48.2% national average.
Data updated 2026-06-21
- 38.5%
- Asylum grant rate
- 61.5%
- Asylum denial rate
- 65
- Asylum decisions
"PD1" 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.
The verdict
Judge PD1 granted asylum in 38.5% of the 65 cases decided on the merits at the Kansas City Immigration Court - below the 48.2% national rate.
- 38.5%
- Asylum grant rate
- 61.5%
- Asylum denial rate
- 65
- Merits decisions, FY2015–2025
Case Insights: Judge PD1
Immigration Judge PD1 decided 65 asylum cases on the merits at the Kansas City Immigration Court between FY2015 and FY2025. Of those, 25 were granted (38.5%) and 40 were denied (61.5%). That volume places Judge PD1 among a lighter caseload at the Kansas City Immigration Court.
The gap between the grant rate and the denial rate is -23.0 percentage points, which categorizes this judge's outcome pattern as denial-leaning relative to national EOIR norms. Because every case before an immigration judge depends on nationality, relief type, representation status, and country conditions, these aggregate rates are not a predictor of any single future decision. TRAC Immigration and DOJ EOIR both caution readers to interpret judge-level rates as descriptive rather than prescriptive statistics.
The Kansas City Immigration Court itself has multiple judges whose grant rates can vary widely, so the best way to contextualize Judge PD1's numbers is to compare against court-wide figures and against peers on the same bench. The court page for Kansas City Immigration Court lists all sitting judges and their asylum grant rates, making side-by-side comparison of decision volumes and grant percentages straightforward for researchers, attorneys, and respondents.
Judges With a Similar Grant Rate
These are the immigration judges nationwide whose asylum grant rate is closest to Judge PD1's 38.5%, regardless of court.
Phoenix Immigration Court
San Francisco Immigration Court
Chelmsford Immigration Court
Otay Mesa Immigration Court
Seattle Immigration Court
Houston - Greenspoint Park Immigration Court
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