Immigration judge Matthew T. Adrian

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Matthew T. Adrian
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Matthew T. Adrian as a former immigration judge, code MAT, with 2,011 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2002. Of the 657 asylum applications this judge decided in FY1998–2002, 358 were granted (54.5%) and 299 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

2,011
Proceedings completed, FY1998–2002: 19.7% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 54.5%
Asylum grant rate, FY1998–2002: 358 granted of 657 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY1998–2002)

Every immigration court in the country: 34.3% granted; 45,948 of 133,778 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 5 fiscal years from 1998 to 2002, this judge granted 358 asylum applications and denied 299 — 54.5% of those decided. A further 703 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Matthew T. Adrian completed 49 proceedings in FY2002, against 0 in FY1993

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

Immigration judge Matthew T. Adrian completed 49 proceedings in FY2002, against 0 in FY1993. 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.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2002	49	5	14	13	7
FY2001	354	39	89	49	110
FY2000	498	105	116	78	142
FY1999	529	109	88	94	190
FY1998	581	138	51	65	254
FY1997	771	243	85	49	393
FY1996	359	122	15	82	157
FY1995	0	0	0	0	0
FY1994	2	1	0	0	0
FY1993	0	0	0	0	0

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 Matthew T. Adrian completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
New York, NY (NYC)	3,149
Houston, TX (HOU)	7
Chicago, IL (CHI)	5

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