Immigration Legislation
- AILALink Statues and RegulationsContains links to the INA, 8 USC provisions not in the INA, public laws, CFR, and Federal Register rules and notices.
- Bender's Immigration and Nationality Act Service
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A comprehensive, easy-to-use presentation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. (Lexis Preface)
BIA Decisions
- Administrative Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Law (1940-present)
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Best bet for searching by volume and page number. Selected Interim Decisions, decisions designated as precedent. Searchable by volume and page number or by keyword. - BIA Precedent Decisions- Arranged by Subject
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Best bet for subject based searches. Heinonline coverage of precedent BIA decisions arranged by subject. - Lexis- Immigration Non-Precedent Decisions
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Best bet for non-precedent decisions. Contains selected Non-Precedent Decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) & Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) from February 1985. - Lexis- Immigration Precedent Decisions
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Immigration Precedent Decisions of the Department of Justice Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA); and the Attorney General of the United States (AG). Spans from 1940-present. - Lexis- AAO/AAU Precedent Decisions
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Decisions of the US Department of Homeland Security Administrative Appeals Office. - Westlaw- Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions
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Contains Federal Immigration- Board of Immigration Appeals' Administrative Decisions of the Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals, and reviews of decisions by the attorney general. Spans from 1940-present. Practice tip: Using the Advanced search "citation" is the best bet to search BIA decisions by citation on Westlaw.
Immigration Executive Orders
Executive orders are directives issued by the president to agencies or other government officials. Presidential proclamations are policy statements issued by the president to the public. Although proclamations are often ceremonial, they can have legal effect (especially when regarding national emergencies, foreign policy, and federal land management). The official publication of both these document types is the Federal Register.
To learn more about executive orders, proclamations, and other presidential directives that carry the force of law, read this brief introduction to presidential directives from the Congressional Research Service.
To track recent executive orders, visit whitehouse.gov's Presidential Actions page or view the most recent issues of the Federal Register.
- Federal Register 1994 - present (NARA)Type 'executive order' AND keywords in search box or 'proclamation' AND keywords
- Federal Register: Executive Orders by President and Year (NARA)Coverage begins in 1994 with President Bill Clinton
- Federal Register 1936 - presentFull-text PDFs of the Federal Register beginning with Vol. 1 (1936).
- Code of Federal Regulations 1996 – present (FDsys)CFR Title 3 is the official source for Executive Orders. EOs are included in the annual CFR in the year after being signed.
- Code of Federal Regulations 1938 – presentFull-text PDFs of CFRs. See Title 3 for Executive Orders and Proclamations from 1938.
- Presidential Executive Orders and Proclamations, 1789 – 1983 (Microfilm)Best source for images of original EOs, Proclamations, and other Presidential documents from before 1936. Find in microform cabinet 2.
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new windowExecutive Orders and Presidential Proclamations 1789-Present
- WikiSource: Presidents of the United StatesProvides links, when available, to presidential documents, beginning with George Washington to the current president.
Immigration Statistics
- Yearbook of Immigration Statistics The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics is a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration enforcement actions, including alien apprehensions, removals, and returns
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