Immigration judge Jay Segal

EOIR records Jay Segal as a former immigration judge, code JS, with 1,150 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2007 and 17.1% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

1,150
Proceedings completed, FY2003–2007: 15.4% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 17.1%
Asylum grant rate, FY2003–2004: 30 granted of 175 decided

Over the 2 fiscal years from 2003 to 2004, this judge granted 30 asylum applications and denied 145 — 17.1% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 638 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge Jay Segal, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2007	0	0	0	0	0
FY2005	0	0	0	0	0
FY2004	281	39	14	31	141
FY2003	869	138	16	114	497
FY2002	815	166	30	176	354
FY2001	692	182	23	129	281
FY2000	816	218	13	163	238
FY1999	1,157	329	17	282	313
FY1998	1,272	335	21	248	644
FY1997	1,634	447	12	431	485

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 Jay Segal completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	10,495
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	4
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	3
Miami, FL (MIA)	1

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