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Dianna Michelle Mart�nez Soler

Immigration Judge, New York/Federal Plaza Immigration Court. Appointed November 2023.

Asylum record, FY 2021-2026

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Judge Soler35.7%
New York court47.7%
All judges nationally62.9%
Decisions on the merits
392
Asylum granted
231
Other relief granted
21
Denied
140
Against own court
-12.0 pts
Denial rate by fiscal year
FY24FY25
20%43%

Read from TRAC's chart to the nearest point. Years with fewer than 25 decisions are not shown.

Docket

Respondents represented by counsel: 94% (nationally, 81% are represented).

Most common nationalities: China (50%), India (50%).

Official biography

Dianna Michelle Martínez Soler was appointed as an immigration judge to begin hearing cases in November 2023. Judge Martínez Soler ear ned a Bachelor of Arts in 2011 from Boston College and a Juris Doctor in 2014 from the Boston University School of Law. From 2017 to 2023, she worked at Central American Legal Assistance (CALA) in Brooklyn, New York, and held the following positions: legal director (2023); supervising staff attorney (2020-2023); and Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow/staff attorney (2017- 2020). At CALA, she provided pro bono representation to noncitizens before EOIR and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security. From 2015 to 2017, she served as a judicial law clerk and then an attorney advisor at the New York – Federal Plaza Immigration Court, entering on duty through the Attorney General's Honors Program. From 2014 to 2015, she served as a staff attorney with the Boston University School of Law's Immigrants' Rights Clinic, where she provided pro bono representation to noncitizens before EOIR, USCIS, and family court. Judge Martínez Soler is a member of the New York State Bar.

As published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review at appointment, via TRAC.

In the record

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About these figures. Denial rates describe outcomes in the cases a judge happened to hear, which differ by detention, nationality and representation. They are not a measure of fairness or competence. Method and sources are on the judges index.