Immigration Law Research Guide: Secondary Sources

AILA’s Immigration Law Practice and Procedure Manual: A “Cookbook” of Essential Practice Materials, by Ari Sauer and Greg Siskind, provides the reader with thorough, how-to guidance on preparing and filing many of the more common immigration applications and petitions. Each chapter contains all the resources most attorneys will need to prepare a specific type of immigration case, making this reference a useful training tool for newer immigration lawyers, as well as a handy practice aid for more seasoned practitioners.

By Richard Boswell
My purpose here is to peel away some of the confusion found in immigration law. I have endeavored in this book to distill immigration law into its most essential elements and principles. Although I have done this to make the subject more accessible for those who are new to the field, I hope that it might also be a tool for those with deeper knowledge. At the same time, this book is not meant to answer every question but to provide you, the reader, with the basics, to shine the light a little bit brighter and help you find your way through the labyrinth—a labyrinth described by Justice Irving Kaufman as bearing a resemblance to King Minos’s ancient Crete. (author's preface)

By Charles Gordon, Stanley Mailman, Stephen Yale-Loehr, and Ronald Y. Wada
Immigration Law and Procedure provides you with the authoritative treatise on immigration law as well as an incomparable collection of easily accessible source materials with all amendments integrated directly into the text. Expert Authoritative Analysis The authors are nationally respected immigration specialists whose professional expertise has made Immigration Law & Procedure the flagship immigration treatise. Their analysis and opinions on undecided points of law have always carried considerable weight with the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. An Unparalleled Collection of Primary Source Materials Immigration Law and Procedure is the most comprehensive resource available today for the immigration practitioner. (Lexis description)

By Shane Dizon and Nadine K. Wettstein
Immigration Law Service 2d, a multi-volume reference, provides a fresh, comprehensive, and current approach to today's immigration-related issues as well as hands-on guidance for tackling virtually any immigration or naturalization situation.

By Austin T. Fragomen, Jr., Careen Shannon, and Daniel Montalvo
Immigration Procedures Handbook contains explanations of how, where, and why to present specific types of petitions and applications under today's immigration laws. This detailed sourcebook also contains analysis of current law, as well as recent changes that affect immigration practice and procedure, to assist you in determining the most effective method of proceeding with a case. (Westlaw description)

By Ira J. Kurzban
This book is written for practitioners, government officials, judges, students, and everyone interested in a detailed knowledge of immigration law. It is designed to be a quick reference to federal and administrative cases, regulations and statutes, and INS/DHS, DOS, and DOL rulings on significant issues in the field. The book represents my research over more than 30 years on topics and issues that are relevant to practicing lawyers and students of immigration. (author's preface)

CBP issues guidance documents to help the public understand how CBP administers its statutory and regulatory authorities. Consistent with Executive Order 13891 Promoting the Rule of Law Through Improved Agency Guidance Documents, documents that may meet the criteria of EO13891 are listed below, and links to the documents are provided. (website)

Frequently requested items from FOIA. List includes: 287(g) MOAs, collective bargaining agreements, policies and procedures, prosecutorial discretion guidance, and many other frequently requested documents.

Guidance on I-9 audits, student and exchange visitor programs, and study in the U.S.

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. (website)

Contains access to various policy and procedural memoranda which gives guidance to USCIS adjudicators in their work of processing applications and petitions for immigration benefits while still protecting national security. (website)

Bender's Immigration Bulletin: * Serves as an authoritative and comprehensive source for the latest in immigration news, case digests, regulations, and government documents * Features timely articles by leading experts in the field--including Lory Diana Rosenberg and Daniel Horne--that underscore the significance of these changes and that highlight their implications for your clients * Includes reproductions of government documents and Federal Register pages, so you can copy the pages you need and attach them to pleadings or other documents. (Lexis website)

Wires with Reuters contains documents from wire services, as provided by NewsRoom to West, a Thomson Reuters business. A document is an article, column, letter, or other section of text. Reuter's Legal: Immigration returns immigration specific news articles. (Westlaw website)

Immigration Briefings provides in-depth analysis of a timely immigration law topic each month. This monthly publication is a compilation of Westlaw's Immigration Daily Briefing. (Westlaw website)

Listing and links to American Immigration Lawyers Association's (AILA) journals and periodicals.

• Database managed by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Database containing a vast repository of documents (both UN and other sources) related to human rights in all countries

ReliefWeb contains a collection of maps indexed by country and the type of disaster or emergency. Also a good source of news.

Country reports, global data on human trafficking and Migration Data Portal.

Search under War & Law, Countries, and within the Resource Centre.

Compilation of publicly available documents that report on aspects of country conditions that have relevance in removal hearings before U.S. Immigration Judges and the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals.

Bloomberg Law Labor and Employment Practice Insight in Immigration Law.

Lexis immigration resources. Additional link to Lexis' Immigration Practice Center that contains key resources and tools specifically tailored to professional work in Immigration Law.

Westlaw immigration resources. Contains sections on practitioner's insight and the latest news.