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Background
The Honorable Immigration Judge Khalilah Taylor earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1998 from Temple University and a Juris Doctor in 2001 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She began her career as a judicial law clerk at the Newark Immigration Court, then served from 2002 to 2014 in various capacities with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of the Chief Counsel in New York, including assistant district counsel, senior attorney, and deputy chief counsel. From 2014 to 2016 she was associate counsel with the Refugee and Asylum Law Division of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and from 2016 to 2020 she returned to ICE as assistant and deputy chief counsel in New York. She was appointed Assistant Chief Immigration Judge for the New York - Broadway Immigration Court in March 2020.
Caseload & process (since 2021)
432
Completions per year
2,592 total
4.4%
Detained at decision
share of cases
22 mo
Median time to decision
from case start
13.1%
Ordered removed in absentia
person absent
3.4%
Decisions appealed to BIA
appeal rate
6.5%
Appeals remanded or reversed
31 appeals decided
Grant rates by type of relief
Share granted among merits decisions for each application type, since 2021.
Asylum
41.9%
124 decisions Moderate
Withholding / CAT
7.9%
165 decisions Moderate
Cancellation — 42B (non-LPR)
68.4%
117 decisions Moderate
Cancellation — 42A (LPR)
100%⚠
1 decision Too few cases
Adjustment of status (245)
94.3%⚠
35 decisions Too few cases
Voluntary departure
100%⚠
31 decisions Too few cases
41.9%
of asylum claims granted on the merits Moderate
Based on 124 asylum decisions (grants + denials) since 2021.
This judge
41.9%
This court
33.3%
National average
31.8%
0%100% granted
In the top 28% of the 825 judges nationally with enough cases to compare.
Does a lawyer matter here?
Asylum grant rate by whether the person had legal representation.
With a lawyerrepresented · 109 decisions since 2021
47.7%
Without a lawyer⚠unrepresented · 15 decisions since 2021
0%
Asylum grant rate over time
Each point is that calendar year's grant rate, back to 2015 where the judge was deciding cases — the longer career view. Dashed grey line = current national average (31.8%). Headline rates above use 2021 – today.
* 2026 is a partial year (data through 06/01/2026) and is incomplete.
Courts where this judge has decided cases
Hearing locations for cases this judge completed since 2021, by number of decisions.
Many judges hear cases from more than one court (detained facilities, video dockets, or reassignments).