Immigration judge D.D. Sitgraves

EOIR records D.D. Sitgraves as a serving immigration judge, code DDS, with 2,058 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2020 and 23.4% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,058
Proceedings completed, FY2016–2020: 17.1% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 23.4%
Asylum grant rate, FY2016–2019: 68 granted of 291 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2016 to 2019, this judge granted 68 asylum applications and denied 223 — 23.4% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 813 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge D.D. Sitgraves, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2020	7	0	0	0	1
FY2019	215	31	12	58	69
FY2018	663	97	27	83	287
FY2017	509	84	12	50	182
FY2016	664	139	17	32	274
FY2015	649	92	11	57	259
FY2014	642	87	40	82	193
FY2013	740	119	52	37	230
FY2012	533	80	50	28	174
FY2011	640	73	49	47	154

Complete fiscal years only. A proceeding is counted in the year it completed, which is not the year it was recorded, so this table is not a record of what arrived.

Where the proceedings were

Immigration courts where D.D. Sitgraves completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	23,059
El Paso, TX (EPD)	206
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	118
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	28
Otero, NM (OTO)	18
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	11
San Diego, CA (SND)	11
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	9
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	9
El Paso, TX (ELP)	4
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	2
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	2
Imperial, CA (IMP)	2
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	1
Conroe, TX (CIC)	1
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	1
Honolulu, HI (HON)	1
Houston, TX (HOU)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	1
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	1
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	1
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	1

The courts where EOIR records this judge completing proceedings, which is not the same as the courts they are assigned to: a judge is assigned to a median of three at once and as many as 72, and an assignment is not a posting.

Sources

EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026