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Inside Immigration

Plain-language guides to US immigration, asylum and USCIS procedure.

Immigration judges

Dara Reid

Immigration Judge, New York - Varick. Appointed June 2020 by William P. Barr.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Reid81.6%
New York - DET court60.9%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
2,093
Asylum granted
359
Other relief granted
26
Denied
1,708
Against own court
+20.7 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
84%79%81%79%97%

Read from TRAC's chart to the nearest point. Years with fewer than 25 decisions are not shown.

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 69% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Official biography

Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Dara F. Reid as an immigration judge in June 2020.Judge Reid ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2000 from Tulane University and a Juris Doctor in 2004from the Hofstra University School of Law. From 2006 to 2020, she served as an assistant chief counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, in New York. From 2005 to 2006, sheserved as a staff attorney in the immigration unit with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. From 2004 to 2005, she was a judicial law clerk, and later an attorney advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of Justice, in Newark,New Jersey. Judge Reid is a member of the New York State Bar.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.

In the record

No published reporting or appellate decisions naming this judge have been collected yet.

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About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.