Immigration judge William Strasser

EOIR records William Strasser as a former immigration judge, code WS, with 1,991 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2006 and 68.0% 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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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

1,991
Proceedings completed, FY2002–2006: 21.0% decided in absentia; 0
Proceedings pending at 2026-09: 68.0%
Asylum grant rate, FY2002–2005: 251 granted of 369 decided

Over the 4 fiscal years from 2002 to 2005, this judge granted 251 asylum applications and denied 118 — 68.0% of those decided, against 37.3% across the country. A further 250 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

2 more columns on a wider screen

What EOIR records for immigration judge William Strasser, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2006	6	0	0	0	2
FY2005	364	127	35	24	46
FY2004	522	124	97	50	63
FY2003	642	128	75	33	83
FY2002	457	39	44	11	56
FY2001	377	42	38	5	59
FY2000	595	66	32	42	71
FY1999	446	51	32	26	116
FY1998	585	37	55	43	131
FY1997	809	115	49	96	233

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 William Strasser completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Newark, NJ (NEW)	11,294
Napanoch, NY (ULS)	427
Elizabeth, NJ (ELZ)	207
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	108
New York, NY (NYV)	80
New York, NY (NYC)	11
Boston, MA (BOS)	9

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