Pearsall, TX immigration court

The Executive Office for Immigration Review records 16,706 proceedings completed at this court in FY2025, with 275 judges currently assigned of 298 assigned at any time. It sits in EOIR’s Western region and EOIR marks it active. EOIR’s own code for it is PSD.

What these figures are, and what they are not

A grant rate is over decisions, not over applications. Across EOIR’s whole file, 1,947,620 asylum applications ended neither granted nor denied — abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred, not adjudicated — against 1,370,866 granted or denied. This page states that third number beside the rate, because a rate that hides it describes a third of the record.

Pending is a snapshot and not a year’s work. It counts proceedings with no completion date as of the release named below, put in the fiscal year EOIR recorded them. It moves every month, for every past year. And the figures for what a court recorded and what it completed are two different populations in the same row: a proceeding recorded in 2019 and completed in 2024 is in both years and is one proceeding.

And an assignment is not a posting. A judge is assigned to a median of three courts at once and as many as 72, and the largest rosters here belong to detention courts whose cases are heard substantially by judges sitting elsewhere. The roster below is the assignments EOIR publishes and says nothing about where any judge is on any day.

Cases, decisions and backlog

16,706
Proceedings completed in FY2025: < 0.1% decided in absentia; 1,602
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: oldest recorded in FY2022; 10.2%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 194 granted of 1,897 decided

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this court granted 194 asylum applications and denied 1,703 — 10.2% of those it decided, against 37.3% across the country over the five years to 2025. A further 843 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

New York · 73.3%Miami · 4.1%

Pearsall is 65 of 74 by asylum grant rate, at 10.2%. Highest on the left.

The 74 figures behind this strip

Every jurisdiction by asylum grant rate, highest first, with Pearsall marked
Rank	Name	Asylum grant rate
1	New York	73.3%
2	Sacramento	72.8%
3	San Francisco	70.9%
4	West Valley	62.9%
5	Las Vegas	62.1%
6	Honolulu	60.1%
7	Concord	52.3%
8	Chelmsford	51.5%
9	Chicago	51.2%
10	Guaynabo	50.0%
11	Van Nuys	49.3%
12	Imperial	48.7%
13	Hyattsville	48.3%
14	Baltimore	47.9%
15	Boston	47.1%
16	Annandale	44.8%
17	Los Angeles	42.7%
18	San Diego	42.0%
19	New York	41.5%
20	Philadelphia	40.4%
21	New York	38.1%
22	Chelmsford	36.2%
23	Denver	36.1%
24	Sterling	35.3%
25	Hagatna	34.1%
26	Portland	33.9%
27	San Antonio	33.7%
28	Detroit	33.5%
29	Buffalo	33.1%
30	Hartford	31.2%
31	New Orleans	29.7%
32	Harlingen	29.6%
33	Otay Mesa	29.1%
34	Santa Ana	28.5%
35	Orlando	27.7%
36	Seattle	27.4%
37	Los Angeles	27.1%
38	Memphis	26.6%
39	Otero	26.5%
40	El Paso	25.8%
41	Newark	25.7%
42	Eloy	24.1%
43	Tucson	23.8%
44	Annandale	22.1%
45	Fort Snelling	21.2%
46	Miami	20.5%
47	Cleveland	19.8%
48	Aurora	19.6%
49	Dallas	19.2%
50	Indianapolis	19.2%
51	Tacoma	19.2%
52	Laredo	18.8%
53	Portland	18.6%
54	Phoenix	17.3%
55	Kansas City	16.5%
56	Jena	15.7%
57	Oakdale	14.5%
58	Lumpkin	13.4%
59	Houston	13.1%
60	Atlanta	12.9%
61	El Paso	12.5%
62	Atlanta	12.3%
63	Florence	12.0%
64	Charlotte	11.8%
65	Pearsall	10.2%
66	Los Fresnos	10.0%
67	Elizabeth	9.3%
68	Houston	8.7%
69	Conroe	8.0%
70	Houston	7.6%
71	Los Fresnos	6.8%
72	Adelanto	6.5%
73	Omaha	5.3%
74	Miami	4.1%

Pearsall recorded 402 more proceedings than it completed in FY2025

Proceedings EOIR recorded at the Pearsall immigration court against proceedings that completed there, by federal fiscal year. The two are different populations: a proceeding recorded in one year and completed in another is counted in both and is one proceeding. Complete fiscal years only.

Recorded is the date EOIR entered the proceeding in its system, which is not the date the charging document was issued. The gap between the two lines in a year is not the change in the backlog, because a proceeding completed this year may have been recorded in any earlier one.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes

The figures behind this chart

Pearsall recorded 402 more proceedings than it completed in FY2025. Proceedings EOIR recorded at the Pearsall immigration court against proceedings that completed there, by federal fiscal year. The two are different populations: a proceeding recorded in one year and completed in another is counted in both and is one proceeding. Complete fiscal years only.
Fiscal year	Recorded	Completed	Asylum granted	Asylum denied
FY2025	17,108	16,706	29	703
FY2024	14,665	14,912	18	433
FY2023	21,022	21,066	22	319
FY2022	8,477	8,029	32	128
FY2021	5,798	5,716	93	120
FY2020	8,155	9,304	137	570
FY2019	10,758	10,246	91	266
FY2018	10,934	11,389	103	281
FY2017	10,309	9,726	100	270
FY2016	11,344	12,942	122	161
FY2015	15,490	14,662	167	282
FY2014	9,826	9,785	91	309
FY2013	8,253	7,789	19	181
FY2012	7,170	7,438	22	90
FY2011	9,126	9,511	23	98
FY2010	8,640	8,371	47	73
FY2009	6,025	5,982	123	125
FY2008	5,107	5,159	78	84
FY2007	3,825	3,899	43	58
FY2006	1,834	1,632	2	17

2 more columns on a wider screen

What the Pearsall immigration court recorded, completed and decided, by federal fiscal year
Fiscal year	Recorded	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	17,108	16,706	2	29	703	412
FY2024	14,665	14,912	0	18	433	158
FY2023	21,022	21,066	1	22	319	125
FY2022	8,477	8,029	0	32	128	56
FY2021	5,798	5,716	0	93	120	92
FY2020	8,155	9,304	3	137	570	353
FY2019	10,758	10,246	0	91	266	327
FY2018	10,934	11,389	0	103	281	320
FY2017	10,309	9,726	5	100	270	340
FY2016	11,344	12,942	0	122	161	371

Recorded and completed are different populations in the same row and must not be added. Complete fiscal years only: FY2026 had not ended when EOIR generated this release, and a part year beside whole ones reads as a collapse. The pending figure above does reach into FY2026, because a backlog is what is waiting now rather than what was waiting last September: 1,596 of 1,602 arrived in a year this table does not show.

What EOIR records

275
Judges currently assigned: 92.3% of all assignments; 298
Judges assigned at any time: 23 no longer assigned

The judges EOIR assigns here

Names as EOIR records them, surname first. A name links to what EOIR records that judge deciding; a judge with no completed proceeding has no page and no link. 1 of these 275 are marked inactive on EOIR’s roster while still assigned here. 23 further judges have been assigned to this court and are not listed, because EOIR no longer records the assignment.

Other courts

Conroe, TX
CIC · 306 judges currently assigned
Dallas, TX
DAL · 143 judges currently assigned
El Paso, TX
ELP · 141 judges currently assigned
El Paso, TX
EPD · 139 judges currently assigned
Fort Worth, TX
FTW · 27 judges currently assigned
Harlingen, TX
HLG · 157 judges currently assigned
Houston, TX
HOU · 97 judges currently assigned
Houston, TX
HGP · 29 judges currently assigned
Houston, TX
HSG · 54 judges currently assigned
Houston, TX
HOD · 3 judges currently assigned
Laredo, TX
LRO · 196 judges currently assigned
Los Fresnos, TX
PEP · 20 judges currently assigned
Los Fresnos, TX
PIS · 5 judges currently assigned
San Antonio, TX
SNA · 165 judges currently assigned

Also: every court by asylum grant rate, by proceedings pending, and the immigration hub.

Sources

EOIR immigration judges and courts — U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 21, 2026
EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year · retrieved September 22, 2026

Data retrieved September 21, 2026