Immigration judge Daniel A. Meisner

EOIR records Daniel A. Meisner as a former immigration judge, code DAM, with 3,662 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2007 and 19.8% of the asylum applications decided granted, against 37.3% across the country.

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What these figures are, and what they are not

None of this measures how this judge decides. Represented and unrepresented applicants have very different outcomes and a judge’s mix of the two is not the judge’s doing; so is the share of their docket that is detained, and detention courts grant asylum at a fraction of the rate other courts do. EOIR publishes representation in a table this site has not loaded, and nothing here adjusts for either.

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate. Across EOIR’s whole file there are more of those than there are grants and denials together.

Proceedings, not people, and a case can carry several. The figures below count proceedings and asylum applications, which are both larger than the number of people involved. Pending is a snapshot as of 2026-09-01 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

3,662
Proceedings completed, FY2003–2007: 25.3% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 19.8%
Asylum grant rate, FY2003–2007: 87 granted of 440 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2003 to 2007, this judge granted 87 asylum applications and denied 353 — 19.8% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 329 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Daniel A. Meisner, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2007	167	34	10	8	28
FY2006	1,017	360	17	73	84
FY2005	950	331	13	98	72
FY2004	818	115	27	84	98
FY2003	710	86	20	90	47
FY2002	766	35	18	86	53
FY2001	663	28	34	37	74
FY2000	598	38	20	55	38
FY1999	520	102	25	55	48
FY1998	605	90	29	115	75

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

Immigration courts where Daniel A. Meisner completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Newark, NJ (NEW)	13,303
New York, NY (NYC)	1,318
Miami, FL (MIA)	798
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	279
New York, NY (NYV)	122
Napanoch, NY (ULS)	120
New York, NY (NYD)	66
Boston, MA (BOS)	53
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	41

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 September 1, 2026