Kyle Dandelet
Immigration Judge, New York/Federal Plaza Immigration Court. Appointed March 2022.
Asylum record, FY 2021-2026
TRAC source →- Decisions on the merits
- 1,060
- Asylum granted
- 621
- Other relief granted
- 39
- Denied
- 400
- Against own court
- -10.0 pts
| FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8% | 31% | 28% | 40% | 65% |
Docket
Respondents represented by counsel: 75% (nationally, 81% are represented).
Most common nationalities: China (30.4%), India (11.5%), Ecuador (7.5%), Bangladesh (7.1%), Honduras (5.2%).
Official biography
Kyle A. Dandelet was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in March 2022. Judge Dandelet ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2004 from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor in 2010 from Harvard Law School. From 2017 to 2022, he was the Pro Bono Immigration Attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (Cleary Gottlieb) in New York. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Senior Staff Attorney in Sanctuary for Families' Immigration Intervention Project at the New York City Family Justice Center in the Bronx, New York. From 2010 to 2012, and from 2013 to 2015, he was a Litigation Associate with Cleary Gottlieb. From 2012 to 2013, he clerked for the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Dandelet is a member of the New York State Bar.
In the record
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