Immigration court · Pearsall, TX
Pearsall Immigration Court
According to the DOJ EOIR FOIA release (vintage 2026-08), signature read: a 80.3 pp judge-level grant spread is the widest lottery stamp on Pearsall's bench. Grant rate sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 24.0% (below the 48.3% national average). Judge lottery spans 80.3 pp on the same bench.
Data updated 2026-09-05
- 24.0%
- Asylum grant rate
- 76.0%
- Asylum denial rate
- 1,697
- Pending cases
- 4 mo
- Time to decision
Pearsall in one line
Pearsall's asylum grant rate is 24.0% (lower-third grant rate, below the 48.3% national average) across 4,642 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (thin-corpus volume).
- 24.0%
- Asylum grant rate · Lower-third grant rate
- 4,642
- Merits decisions · Thin-corpus volume
- -24.3 pp
- vs. national average
- 80.3 pp
- Judge-level grant spread · wide
What this court's record shows
Pearsall Immigration Court sits in the lower third of tracked courts at 24.0% across 4,642 FY2015–2025 merits (24.3 pp below the 48.3% national average). Historical docket context only.
Wide judge lottery: 2.2% to 82.5% (80.3 pp) across 21 reported judges at Pearsall. Case mix and assignment still shape the court aggregate.
1,697 pending cases and an average recorded wait of 4 months describe administrative pressure in this snapshot. Use the peer comparisons below to place this court against similar caseloads and grant-rate profiles, then consult the methodology for the extract's scope and limits.
Court outlook score
Court outlook score
59/100
Pearsall, weighted across 3 of 3 tracked dimensions
A weighted composite of asylum grant rate, time to decision, and backlog ratio against the full tracked-court corpus. It describes the historical docket, not the odds of any one case, and does not weigh legal representation, case type, or judge assignment.
- Asylum grant rate F 24.0%
Share of merits decisions granting relief, FY2015-2025
- Time to decision A+ 4 mo
Average recorded months from filing to decision
- Backlog ratio A- 0.8%
Pending cases as a share of the court's own total caseload
EOIR bench spread roll
Grant-rate neighbourhood for Pearsall
Lower-third grant-rate neighbors for Pearsall (24.0%), with bench-spread stamps for the same-docket judge lottery.
Pearsall Immigration Court vs all courts by asylum merits caseload
Where this court's FY2015–2025 asylum merits-decision count sits among every tracked immigration court (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)
4,642 53rd of 77 higher than 24 of 77 courts
Immigration courts, banded by asylum merits-decision count
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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025
Where Pearsall sits: Fast but Tough
Each dot is one of the 41 largest immigration courts by merits decisions, split at the MEDIAN grant rate (47.5%) and median average wait (31.0 months) across this set. Pearsall's own grant rate is 24.0% and its average wait is 3.6 months.
How to read this
- Fast & Favorable
- Favorable but Slow
- Fast but Tough
- Slow & Tough
Pearsall Immigration Court's merits outcome mix
4,642merits decisions FY2015–2025
Grant rate over time
Lower-third court Pearsall: fiscal-year grant path across FY2015–2025 merits.
| Fiscal year | Decisions | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| FY2015 | 454 | 37.9% |
| FY2016 | 284 | 43.3% |
| FY2017 | 371 | 27.2% |
| FY2018 | 384 | 26.8% |
| FY2019 | 363 | 26.7% |
| FY2020 | 744 | 23.5% |
| FY2021 | 232 | 48.7% |
| FY2022 | 176 | 27.8% |
| FY2023 | 372 | 14.5% |
| FY2024 | 482 | 10.2% |
| FY2025 | 780 | 10.1% |
The judge lottery at Pearsall Immigration Court
21 judges with enough asylum decisions to report. Grant rates run from 82.5% (80 decisions) down to 2.2% (46 decisions) - a 80.3-point spread on the same bench. Rates based on smaller decision counts carry more statistical noise.
Judge names below are the anonymized judge codes EOIR assigns in its public case-data release, not verified public identities. EOIR does not publish immigration judges' full names in this dataset. See our methodology for detail.
| # | Judge | Decisions | Asylum grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge MB | 80 | |
| 2 | Judge GPM | 59 | |
| 3 | Judge RSN | 27 | |
| 4 | Judge CAH | 95 | |
| 5 | Judge DHF | 204 | |
| 6 | Judge EJT | 202 | |
| 7 | Judge DJS | 79 | |
| 8 | Judge TGC | 225 | |
| 9 | Judge ADM | 105 | |
| 10 | Judge MBT | 331 | |
| 11 | Judge MGM | 27 | |
| 12 | Judge EMZ | 155 | |
| 13 | Judge SDA | 684 | |
| 14 | Judge CNM | 64 | |
| 15 | Judge WLP | 472 | |
| 16 | Judge RRM | 709 | |
| 17 | Judge JA1 | 110 | |
| 18 | Judge VMS | 228 | |
| 19 | Judge KNT | 232 | |
| 20 | Judge DML | 36 | |
| 21 | Judge SSL | 46 | |
Nationwide courts with similar asylum profiles
Lower-third grant-rate peers for Pearsall, plus caseload matches on a second axis.
Similar grant rate (± asylum merits volume)
- Elizabeth Immigration Court · Elizabeth, NJ · 24.1% grant · 5,586 merits
- Oakdale Immigration Court · Oakdale, LA · 23.9% grant · 5,826 merits
- Florence Immigration Court · Florence, AZ · 23.0% grant · 1,821 merits
- Omaha Immigration Court · Omaha, NE · 25.8% grant · 5,224 merits
Similar merits caseload (± grant rate)
- Stewart Immigration Court · Lumpkin, GA · 4,315 merits · 15.4% grant
- Portland Immigration Court (Detained) · Portland, OR · 4,996 merits · 43.7% grant
- Buffalo Immigration Court · Buffalo, NY · 5,018 merits · 42.3% grant
- Kansas City Immigration Court · Kansas City, MO · 5,050 merits · 36.5% grant
Why judge-level rates vary · Browse every tracked immigration court
Lower-third grant-rate court Pearsall (24.0%) in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.
Read our methodology - how Pearsall's 4,642-decision EOIR court row is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Immigration court outcomes by court and case type · 2025
Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Pearsall Immigration Court's outcome and grant-rate figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.