Immigration judge Timothy M. Cole

Name: EOIR case outcomes for immigration judge Timothy M. Cole
Creator: U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review
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EOIR records Timothy M. Cole as a serving immigration judge, code TMC, with 6,087 proceedings completed in the five fiscal years to 2025. Of the 771 asylum applications this judge decided in FY2021–2025, 133 were granted (17.3%) and 638 denied.

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 Applications that were abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed, transferred or not adjudicated are counted separately below and are in neither side of the rate.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 September 1, 2026 and moves every month.

Cases, decisions and backlog

6,087
Proceedings completed, FY2021–2025: 3.1% decided in absentia; 272
Proceedings pending as of September 2026: 17.3%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–2025: 133 granted of 771 decided

Context, over the same fiscal years (FY2021–2025)

Every immigration court in the country: 37.3% granted; 140,740 of 377,216 asylum applications decided
The Conroe, TX court, where EOIR records this judge completing the most proceedings: 8.0% granted; 222 of 2,766 asylum applications decided

For the reader to weigh, not a measure of this judge: everything in the box above applies to these rates as well, and a court’s docket is not any one judge’s.

Over the 5 fiscal years from 2021 to 2025, this judge granted 133 asylum applications and denied 638 — 17.3% of those decided. A further 508 ended neither way and are in neither figure.

By fiscal year

Immigration judge Timothy M. Cole completed 1,306 proceedings in FY2025, against 11 in FY2016

Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.

U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review — EOIR immigration court outcomes by judge, court and fiscal year

The figures behind this chart

Immigration judge Timothy M. Cole completed 1,306 proceedings in FY2025, against 11 in FY2016. Proceedings EOIR records this judge completing, by federal fiscal year. A year with no column is a year in which EOIR records no proceeding completed by this judge.
Fiscal year	Completed	In absentia	Asylum granted	Asylum denied	Neither
FY2025	1,306	0	14	115	72
FY2024	596	0	8	163	37
FY2023	2,067	23	44	124	88
FY2022	1,606	160	62	198	228
FY2021	512	6	5	38	83
FY2020	505	112	14	128	68
FY2019	1,085	200	36	154	96
FY2018	1,201	131	23	103	83
FY2017	886	312	5	48	96
FY2016	11	2	0	0	1

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 Timothy M. Cole completed proceedings
Court	Proceedings completed
Conroe, TX (CIC)	6,154
Miami, FL (MIA)	4,885
Pearsall, TX (PSD)	125
Jena, LA (JNA)	104
Houston, TX (HOU)	6
Atlanta, GA (ATL)	5
Chicago, IL (CHI)	3
El Paso, TX (ELP)	3
Harlingen, TX (HLG)	3
Miami, FL (KRO)	3
Florence, AZ (FLO)	2
San Antonio, TX (SNA)	2
Boston, MA (BOS)	1
Eloy, AZ (ELO)	1
Hartford, CT (HAR)	1
Houston, TX (HSG)	1
Otero, NM (OTO)	1
Los Fresnos, TX (PIS)	1
Los Angeles, CA (WLA)	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 · retrieved September 1, 2026
EOIR immigration judges and courts

Data retrieved September 1, 2026