Immigration judge David Cheng
EOIR records David Cheng as a serving immigration judge, code DC1, with 8,950 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 23.3% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 8,950
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 15.8% decided in absentia
- 5,920
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 23.3%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 91 granted of 390 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 91 asylum applications and denied 299 — 23.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 2,028 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 3,681 | 17 | 125 |
| FY2024 | 2,525 | 17 | 20 |
| FY2023 | 1,513 | 42 | 72 |
| FY2022 | 681 | 5 | 28 |
| FY2021 | 550 | 10 | 54 |
| FY2020 | 886 | 24 | 80 |
| FY2019 | 947 | 12 | 101 |
| FY2018 | 829 | 5 | 24 |
| FY2017 | 230 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2016 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
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
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