Immigration judge Matthew J. D'Angelo
EOIR records Matthew J. D'Angelo as a serving immigration judge, code MJD, with 749 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2022. Of the 156 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2018–2019, 76 were granted (48.7%) and 80 denied. Over the same years, the grant rate was 47.9% at the Boston, MA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings, and 31.5% across every immigration court in the country.
Cases, decisions and backlog
- 749
- Proceedings completed, FY2018–2022
- 24.2% decided in absentia
- 0
- Proceedings pending as of September 2026
- 48.7%
- Asylum grant rate, FY2018–2019
- 76 granted of 156 decided
Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2018–2019)
- Every immigration court in the country
- 31.5% granted
- 35,407 of 112,445 asylum applications decided
- The Boston, MA court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings
- 47.9% granted
- 970 of 2,025 asylum applications decided
For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.
Over the 2 fiscal years from 2018 to 2019, this judge granted 76 asylum applications and denied 80 — 48.7% of those decided. A further 149 ended neither way and are in neither figure.
By fiscal year
Immigration judge Matthew J. D'Angelo completed 1 proceedings in FY2022, against 851 in FY2012
Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year
The figures behind this chart
| Fiscal year | Completed | In absentia | Asylum granted | Asylum denied | Neither |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 742 | 181 | 76 | 79 | 148 |
| FY2017 | 760 | 173 | 56 | 45 | 167 |
| FY2016 | 743 | 146 | 54 | 28 | 134 |
| FY2015 | 716 | 128 | 48 | 21 | 114 |
| FY2014 | 791 | 154 | 36 | 29 | 124 |
| FY2013 | 929 | 144 | 47 | 17 | 147 |
| FY2012 | 851 | 163 | 52 | 14 | 133 |
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
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