Immigration judge Kevin Brown

EOIR records Kevin Brown as a serving immigration judge, code KBR, with 8,750 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 812 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 30 were granted (3.7%) and 782 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

8,750
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 26.9% decided in absentia; 2,798
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 3.7%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 30 granted of 812 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
The Houston, TX court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 8.7% granted; 449 of 5,173 asylum applications decided

For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 30 asylum applications and denied 782 — 3.7% of those decided. A further 1,918 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Kevin Brown, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	2,455	798	3	375	431
FY2024	2,662	559	15	141	661
FY2023	2,047	638	8	143	402
FY2022	1,278	348	2	86	301
FY2021	308	10	2	37	123
FY2020	1,170	443	0	62	31
FY2019	9	0	0	0	4
FY2018	1	0	0	0	0
FY2017	3	2	0	0	0
FY2016	0	0	0	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

Immigration courts where Kevin Brown completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Houston, TX (HSG)	11,171
Houston, TX (HOU)	520
Jena, LA (JNA)	214
Los Angeles, CA (NLA)	36
Conroe, TX (CIC)	19
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	10
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	9
New York, NY (NYC)	9
El Paso, TX (ELP)	5
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	5
Houston, TX (HGP)	4
Miami, FL (MIA)	3
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	3
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	2
Laredo, TX (LRO)	2
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	2
Sacramento, CA (SMO)	2
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	1
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	1
Denver, CO (DEN)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
El Paso, TX (EPD)	1
New Orleans, LA (NOL)	1
Omaha, NE (OMA)	1
Orlando, FL (ORL)	1
Annandale, VA (WAS)	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