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Immigration courts in Texas

EOIR runs 15 immigration courts in Texas, with 699 judges assigned to them today. They completed 257,759 proceedings in FY2025 and had 51,137 still waiting.

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What the courts here did in FY2025

257,759
Proceedings completed, FY2025
23.4% decided in absentia
51,137
Proceedings pending at 2026-09
15.2%
Asylum grant rate, FY2021–FY2025
against 37.3% across the country over the same five years

Asylum grant rate at the courts in Texas, by fiscal year

Immigration courts in Texas granted asylum in 7.8% of decisions in FY2025, against 23.2% across the country

Asylum applications granted as a share of those granted or denied, at the immigration courts sitting in Texas, by federal fiscal year, against every immigration court in the country over the same years. Year by year, where the figures above this chart are over the five years to FY2025 — so the last point here is FY2025 alone. Courts sitting in Texas, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.

A rate is applications granted over applications granted plus denied. Those abandoned, withdrawn, administratively closed or otherwise not adjudicated are in neither side of it, and across EOIR’s release they outnumber the decisions.

None of this measures how a court decides. Representation and the detained share of a docket move a grant rate more than the court does, and this site has loaded neither.

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

The figures behind this chart
Immigration courts in Texas granted asylum in 7.8% of decisions in FY2025, against 23.2% across the country. Asylum applications granted as a share of those granted or denied, at the immigration courts sitting in Texas, by federal fiscal year, against every immigration court in the country over the same years. Year by year, where the figures above this chart are over the five years to FY2025 — so the last point here is FY2025 alone. Courts sitting in Texas, not its residents: a detained court hears cases from far outside the state it sits in.
Fiscal yearTexasUnited States
FY20257.8%23.2%
FY202415.1%43.6%
FY202320.3%47.3%
FY202221.0%46.2%
FY202132.2%37.1%
FY202014.4%28.0%
FY201911.6%30.2%
FY201813.2%33.7%
FY201714.3%38.3%
FY201613.1%43.5%
FY201519.0%48.6%
FY201420.1%49.0%
FY201329.1%52.8%
FY201231.1%55.5%
FY201131.4%52.1%
FY201032.5%50.7%
FY200934.7%47.5%
FY200834.5%45.2%
FY200725.3%46.3%
FY200627.3%44.7%

San Antonio granted 33.7% and Los Fresnos granted 6.8%

The 13 courts in Texas with enough decisions to rank granted asylum at rates 26.9 points apart over the five years to FY2025. A state figure is the sum of them, and the sum is not what either court did.

San Antonio · 33.7%Los Fresnos · 6.8%

San Antonio is 1 of 13 by asylum grant rate among Texas's courts, at 33.7%. Highest on the left.

The 13 figures behind this strip
Every jurisdiction by asylum grant rate among Texas's courts, highest first, with San Antonio marked
RankNameAsylum grant rate among Texas's courts
1San Antonio33.7%
2Harlingen29.6%
3El Paso25.8%
4Dallas19.2%
5Laredo18.8%
6Houston13.1%
7El Paso12.5%
8Pearsall10.2%
9Los Fresnos10.0%
10Houston8.7%
11Conroe8.0%
12Houston7.6%
13Los Fresnos6.8%

Every immigration court in Texas

1 more column on a wider screen

Immigration courts sitting in Texas, with what EOIR records for each
CourtJudges assigned nowAsylum grant rate
Conroe3068.0%
Dallas14319.2%
El Paso ELP14125.8%
El Paso EPD13912.5%
Fort Worth27not reported
Harlingen15729.6%
Houston HOU9713.1%
Houston HGP297.6%
Houston HSG548.7%
Houston HOD3not reported
Laredo19618.8%
Los Fresnos PEP2010.0%
Los Fresnos PIS56.8%
Pearsall27510.2%
San Antonio16533.7%

Every immigration court by asylum grant rate ranks these against the rest of the country, which is the comparison this page does not make: the strip above places them among Texas’s own. By proceedings pending ranks them by backlog.

A court with no rate decided fewer than 100 asylum applications in the window, which is too few for a rate to mean anything; its own page states the count. Judges assigned is a count of people with a live assignment, and a judge assigned to several courts in Texas is one person on each of their rows — which is why 699 is fewer than the column added up.

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The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

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