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"Welcome to the third edition of Immigration Equality and the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center's LGBTQ/HIV Asylum Manual. Fully updated in 2006, this edition is a web-based document that can be viewed in its entirety online. Note: In January 2012, USCIS issued "Guidance for Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims." This offers invaluable information about how the asylum office adjudicates LGBTQI claims and should be reviewed by practitioners. The Manual would not have been possible without the work of many others (especially those who wrote the first two versions of the handbook). Please see the Preface and Acknowledgments for a complete list of such indispensable individuals. This handbook is intended for use by pro bono attorneys and immigration attorneys working on LGBTQ/HIV asylum cases. The handbook is not intended as legal advice and is not meant to be used by unrepresented asylum seekers to prepare their own applications."

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

Brief manual for accredited reps and attorneys regarding immigration court proceedings

Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on Immigration related issues that is housed at the EveryCSRReport.com repository.

The United Kingdom has Independent Monitoring Boards that oversee both immigration criminal detention facilities.

Form used to authorize sharing data about immigrant in detention. "Your Full Name" refers to immigrant. Recipient is person to receive information. May be used to request attendance at asylum hearings.

Government Studies on Immigration

An archive of open access peer reviewed immigration law publications.

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.

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

"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.

"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."

Visitation restrictions, location, size, Immigration Judges, Phone numbers