Immigration judge David Burke

EOIR records David Burke as a serving immigration judge, code DB, with 4,344 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 48.9% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

4,344
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 8.0% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 48.9%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2024: 341 granted of 697 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2021 to 2024, this judge granted 341 asylum applications and denied 356 — 48.9% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 1,758 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge David Burke, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1	0	0	0	0
FY2024	489	12	76	76	216
FY2023	1,744	204	132	111	612
FY2022	1,661	123	96	102	761
FY2021	449	10	37	67	169
FY2020	725	147	73	215	112
FY2019	677	98	41	220	152
FY2018	711	125	47	170	220
FY2017	654	135	19	68	205
FY2016	1,002	92	17	41	252

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 David Burke completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	6,354
Van Nuys, CA (VNS)	4,479
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	4,160
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	228
Conroe, TX (CIC)	65
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	31
San Diego, CA (SND)	20
San Francisco, CA (SFR)	12
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	11
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	10
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	9
Otay Mesa, CA (OTM)	8
Imperial, CA (IMP)	6
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	5
Oakdale, LA (OAK)	5
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	5
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	3
Jena, LA (JNA)	3
Annandale, VA (WAS)	3
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	2
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	2
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	2
Santa Ana, CA (SNC)	2
Tacoma, WA (TAC)	2
Atlanta, GA (ATD)	1
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Charlotte, NC (CHL)	1
Dallas, TX (DAL)	1
El Paso, TX (EPD)	1
Houston, TX (HGP)	1
Miami, FL (KRO)	1
New York, NY (NYC)	1
Lumpkin, GA (SDC)	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