Immigration judge David Kim
EOIR records David Kim as a serving immigration judge, code DDK, with 3,622 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 86.3% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 3,622
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 18.7% decided in absentia
- 2,293
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 86.3%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2022–2025
- 422 granted of 489 decided
Over the 4 fiscal years from 2022 to 2025, this judge granted 422 asylum applications and denied 67 — 86.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 927 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,413 | 61 | 49 |
| FY2024 | 1,363 | 200 | 10 |
| FY2023 | 824 | 160 | 7 |
| FY2022 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2018 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 26 | 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