Immigration judge Robert D. Weisel

EOIR records Robert D. Weisel as a serving immigration judge, code RDW, with 657 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2017 and 83.3% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

657
Proceedings completed, FY2013–2017: 4.7% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 83.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2013–2017: 250 granted of 300 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2013 to 2017, this judge granted 250 asylum applications and denied 50 — 83.3% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 116 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

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What EOIR records for immigration judge Robert D. Weisel, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2017	96	7	39	16	20
FY2016	184	17	61	23	32
FY2015	94	1	41	3	20
FY2014	129	3	49	5	29
FY2013	154	3	60	3	15
FY2012	429	27	120	11	52
FY2011	792	75	222	42	83
FY2010	751	142	183	53	98
FY2009	674	98	179	75	96
FY2008	632	111	132	93	85

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 Robert D. Weisel completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
New York, NY (NYC)	18,887
Buffalo, NY (BUF)	4,469
Napanoch, NY (ULS)	164
New York, NY (NYV)	107
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	50
Detroit, MI (DET)	46
Philadelphia, PA (PHI)	39
Orlando, FL (ORL)	36
Guaynabo, PR (SAJ)	25
Kansas City, MO (KAN)	20
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	14
Dallas, TX (DAL)	13
Boston, MA (BOS)	10
Fort Snelling, MN (BLM)	4
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	4
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	3
Adelanto, CA (ADL)	2
Baltimore, MD (BAL)	2
Phoenix, AZ (PHO)	2
Cleveland, OH (CLE)	1
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	1
Newark, NJ (NEW)	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 · Public domain. Information on Department of Justice websites is in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026