12 judges · TX
The Pearsall South, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum approval rate of 6.3% across 77,176 decided cases. The court has 12 immigration judges. Data sourced from EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review).
The Pearsall South, TX Immigration Court has an overall asylum grant rate of 6.3% in the current AsylumTracker dataset. Court-level statistics aggregate judges and cases assigned to that court, so the court average can differ sharply from any one judge's profile.
High-volume judge profiles at this court include Tovar, Eleazar (40,918 total cases), Achtsam, Howard E. (36,744 total cases), and Vomacka, Alan A. (19,636 total cases). The largest nationality groups shown for this court include Mexico (3,277 decided, 5.5% grant rate), Honduras (932 decided, 1.8% grant rate), and Guatemala (557 decided, 1.6% grant rate).
Asylum grant rate is calculated as granted / (granted + denied). Procedural outcomes are separated so users can distinguish merits decisions from docket-management outcomes.
This page uses public EOIR records last updated 2026-07-01. The data is informational and should not be treated as legal advice or a prediction for any individual case.
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| Judge | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tovar, Eleazar | 3.6% | 1,354 | 36,751 | 38,105 |
| Achtsam, Howard E. | 3.7% | 1,179 | 30,689 | 31,868 |
| Vomacka, Alan A. | 13.6% | 2,210 | 14,035 | 16,245 |
| Meyerson, Gregory Z. | 4.2% | 214 | 4,915 | 5,129 |
| Onyewuchi, Morris I. | 4.5% | 160 | 3,408 | 3,568 |
| Prud'Homme, M. Edwin | 35.7% | 1,253 | 2,256 | 3,509 |
| Visiting Judge 1 | 11.2% | 279 | 2,207 | 2,486 |
| Crews, John G., II | 7.2% | 154 | 1,999 | 2,153 |
| Lauer, Charles A. | 19.4% | 214 | 888 | 1,102 |
| Clerical Transfer Code | 34.7% | 228 | 430 | 658 |
| Ambrose, Dillon J. | 4.0% | 6 | 144 | 150 |
| Prairieland Detail Judge 1 | 0.0% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nationality | Approval Rate | Granted | Denied | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 5.5% | 181 | 3,096 | 3,277 |
| Honduras | 1.8% | 17 | 915 | 932 |
| Guatemala | 1.6% | 9 | 548 | 557 |
| Nicaragua | 4.1% | 21 | 486 | 507 |
| El Salvador | 4.5% | 21 | 448 | 469 |
| Venezuela | 6.7% | 17 | 237 | 254 |
| Cuba | 12.9% | 17 | 115 | 132 |
| Colombia | 4.1% | 5 | 116 | 121 |
| Ecuador | 1.9% | 2 | 101 | 103 |
| Dominican Republic | 2.2% | 1 | 44 | 45 |
| China | 14.0% | 6 | 37 | 43 |
| Russia | 48.8% | 20 | 21 | 41 |
| Peru | 3.7% | 1 | 26 | 27 |
| Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan) | 8.3% | 2 | 22 | 24 |
| Brazil | 0.0% | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| Cameroon | 40.9% | 9 | 13 | 22 |
| Nigeria | 27.3% | 6 | 16 | 22 |
| Romania | 13.6% | 3 | 19 | 22 |
| Haiti | 16.7% | 3 | 15 | 18 |
| India | 11.8% | 2 | 15 | 17 |
| Sri Lanka | 25.0% | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| Eritrea | 28.6% | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Ghana | 40.0% | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Iran | 60.0% | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Belize | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Jordan | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Pakistan | 25.0% | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Philippines | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Uzbekistan | 0.0% | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Vietnam | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Syria | 50.0% | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Ethiopia | 66.7% | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Somalia | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Turkey | 0.0% | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Guinea | 50.0% | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Nepal | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Bangladesh | 0.0% | 0 | 1 | 1 |