Immigration judge David Russo
EOIR records David Russo as a serving immigration judge, code DDR, with 10,197 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 39.2% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 10,197
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 35.5% decided in absentia
- 7,684
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 39.2%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 220 granted of 561 decided
Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 220 asylum applications and denied 341 — 39.2% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 2,082 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 5,047 | 39 | 105 |
| FY2024 | 2,738 | 24 | 44 |
| FY2023 | 1,342 | 53 | 58 |
| FY2022 | 867 | 81 | 119 |
| FY2021 | 203 | 23 | 15 |
| FY2020 | 48 | 3 | 8 |
| FY2019 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 16 | 1 | 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