Immigration judge Khalilah Taylor
EOIR records Khalilah Taylor as a serving immigration judge, code KHT, with 2,376 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 104 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 50 were granted (48.1%) and 54 denied.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 2,376
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 10.0% decided in absentia
- 38
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 48.1%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025
- 50 granted of 104 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 New York, NY court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 38.1% granted
- 7,914 of 20,788 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 50 asylum applications and denied 54 — 48.1% of those decided. A further 612 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Khalilah Taylor completed 276 proceedings in FY2025, against 3 in FY2016
Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year
The figures behind this chart
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 276 | 62 | 7 | 19 | 104 |
| FY2024 | 498 | 88 | 13 | 13 | 68 |
| FY2023 | 605 | 44 | 17 | 2 | 239 |
| FY2022 | 427 | 36 | 13 | 16 | 159 |
| FY2021 | 570 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 42 |
| FY2020 | 209 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| FY2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2018 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2016 | 3 | 1 | 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
| Court | Proceedings completed |
|---|---|
| New York, NY (NYB) | 1,651 |
| New York, NY (NYC) | 717 |
| New York, NY (NYV) | 675 |
| Pearsall, TX (PSD) | 23 |
| Boston, MA (BOS) | 20 |
| Jena, LA (JNA) | 5 |
| Los Angeles, CA (NLA) | 5 |
| Los Fresnos, TX (PEP) | 4 |
| Chicago, IL (CHI) | 3 |
| Houston, TX (HOU) | 2 |
| Newark, NJ (NEW) | 2 |
| Buffalo, NY (BUF) | 1 |
| Conroe, TX (CIC) | 1 |
| Miami, FL (MIA) | 1 |
| San Antonio, TX (SNA) | 1 |
| Tacoma, WA (TAC) | 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