Immigration judge Thanos Kanellakos
EOIR records Thanos Kanellakos as a serving immigration judge, code TSK, with 4,445 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025 and 35.2% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.
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Cases, decisions and backlog
- 4,445
- Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025
- 19.3% decided in absentia
- 1,205
- Proceedings pending at 2026-09
- 35.2%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2022–2025
- 173 granted of 492 decided
Over the 4 fiscal years from 2022 to 2025, this judge granted 173 asylum applications and denied 319 — 35.2% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 886 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
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| Fiscal year | Completed | Asylum granted | Asylum denied |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1,291 | 54 | 184 |
| FY2024 | 1,141 | 55 | 62 |
| FY2023 | 1,408 | 62 | 67 |
| FY2022 | 603 | 2 | 6 |
| FY2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2016 | 18 | 0 | 1 |
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