Immigration judge Daniel L. Kahn

EOIR records Daniel L. Kahn as a former immigration judge, code DLK, with 7,142 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 1993 and 7.0% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

7,142
Proceedings completed, FY1989–1993: 8.0% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 7.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY1989–1993: 24 granted of 343 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 1989 to 1993, this judge granted 24 asylum applications and denied 319 — 7.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 159 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Daniel L. Kahn, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY1993	597	167	0	12	4
FY1992	1,916	271	3	77	23
FY1991	1,051	101	8	43	20
FY1990	1,590	20	7	122	54
FY1989	1,988	12	6	65	58
FY1988	1,781	160	5	33	138
FY1987	1,406	514	1	7	499
FY1986	179	20	0	15	17
FY1985	94	8	0	2	2
FY1984	15	0	1	0	2

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 Daniel L. Kahn completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Seattle, WA (SEA)	3,937
Portland, OR (POO)	2,872
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	2,149
Aurora, CO (AUR)	866
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	702
Denver, CO (DEN)	64
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	19
Florence, AZ (FLO)	14
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	6
West Valley, UT (SLC)	3
New York, NY (NYC)	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 · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026