Resources
Immigration law is a big, complicated web of agencies, policies, bureaucrats, laws, lobbyists, treaties, courts and almost anything else typically associated with any major hot button political issue. Here is a list of basic resources to help make sense of it all.
Getting Started
- The Immigration & Nationality Act (INA)
- Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- The U.N. Refugee Convention (1951)
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS)
- USCIS Website
- USCIS Online Case Status Check
- USCIS Civil Surgeons List
- USCIS InfoPass
- Preparing for the Naturalization Exam
U.S. Department of State
- State Department Website
- Visa Bulletin
- Foreign Affairs Manual
- Directory of U.S. Embassies
- Department of State Visa Information
Detention & Removal
- Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Courts & Board of Immigration Appeals)
- Immigration Court Practice Manual
- BIA Practice Manual
- BIA Precedent Decisions
- Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- ICE Online Detainee Locator
- Customs & Border Protection (CBP)
- Office of the Chief Counsel Offices
Asylum & Refugees
Other Helpful Sites
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- American Immigration Council
- Catholic Legal Immigration Network
- CLINIC Citizenship Test
- CLINIC Citizenship Toolkit
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- National Immigration Project
- ACLU
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
Bogart, Small + Associates Other Immigration Related Blogs
- Inmigración Arkansas
- Deportation Tales
- ILW
- Redirect Podcast
- The Asylumist
- Hoppock Law Firm Blog
- Greg Siskind on Immigration Law & Policy