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An archive of open access peer reviewed immigration law publications.

Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network offers legal support for adults in immigration detention and for immigrant children who have suffered from abuse, neglect or violence

"U.S. immigration law allows asylees to apply for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status after they have been physically present in the U.S. for at least one year since being granted asylum. This page provides specific information for asylees in the United States who want to become LPRs (get a Green Card). This is called "adjustment of status." You should also read the Instructions for Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status (PDF, 545 KB) before you apply"

Hosted at the 9th Circuit, but the motions are submitted to the BIA so apparently more widely relevant.

CLINIC's Web Classroom for Immigration Law Training

This American Immigration Council practice advisory from February 2018 details motions to reopen and includes information on how these impact final orders of removal.

This link contains a FOIA'd spreadsheet with asylum grant and denial rates for all IJ's in the US. Want to see how a given judge stacks up, check here.

"A benchbook is a book providing an overview of legal procedure for a judge. These books are used by judges while hearing cases as guides to assist in the disposition of a case. While benchbooks generally are not a source of substantive law, the EOIR Benchbook contained invaluable templates, motions, scripts, and cases for judges to cite to when entering orders." The EOIR Benchbook was mysteriously removed from the DOJ website in April of 2017 "Without these resources, both immigration attorneys and pro se respondents (immigrants who represent themselves without a lawyer) are at a great disadvantage. Susan Pai continues, "I hastily retrieved as much of the benchbook as I could before it disappeared from the Internet entirely. Meanwhile, my Kansas colleague Matthew Hoppock began the arduous endeavor of getting the EOIR Benchbook back online. He succeeded… for a time. The EOIR Benchbook was "archived" in an obscure location on the DOJ website. It was subsequently taken down again. After a Freedom of Information Act appeal, Attorney Matthew Hoppock was able to get the EOIR Benchbook back online. But, DOJ moved it to an obscure location on the website, did not update its DOJ website search engine to lead searches for the "EOIR Benchbook" to the right page, and the archived benchbook was only downloadable as a troublesome zip file." Links to the benchbook housed at none other than the Internet Archive are supplied in the blog post.

A publication of the American Bar Association

New Additions to the EOIR Virtual Law Library. This is where new BIA decisions are posted. There are also lists to catalogs of agency decisions and indices of these decisions.

"The USCIS Policy Manual is the agency's centralized online repository for USCIS' immigration policies. The USCIS Policy Manual will ultimately replace the Adjudicator's Field Manual (AFM), the USCIS Immigration Policy Memoranda site, and other policy repositories."

ASISTA's goal is to provide national leadership, advocacy, training, and technical assistance to those working with crime survivors seeking secure immigration status, especially those who have suffered gender-based violence. The Clearinghouse has a large archive of materials including recorded webinars and other trainings.