Immigration law resource page with links to immigration centers, immigration guides, immigration tax counseling, immigration lawyers, immigration bulletins, immigration treatises, immigration handbooks, the INS and the INS Handbook, visa services, and much more.
Governmental Internet Resources
- Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
- Is the official Government Agency that handles immigration procedures.
- Visa Services from the Department of State
- Provides access to a variety of Visa forms and
information on how to get a visa. Some of the forms include visitor visa application,
Affidavit of Support, Visitor and Student Visas, Immigrant Visas, Employment Visas,
Marriage to Foreign Nationals, and Other Visa Questions.
Nongovernmental Internet Resources
- American Immigration Center
- Houses one of the largest available selections of self-help immigration & citizenship
products. They sell products through direct mail order and specialize in
distributing and stocking products that are directly related to Immigration,
Citizenship and Learning the English Language.
- GODORT Immigration
- Via the Government Documents Handout Exchange provides links to various immigration government documents on the Internet.
- Guide to Country Research for Refugee Status Determination
- This research guide supplements the
legal analysis integral to refugee status determination (RSD) with a
review of the mechanics of country research. Although a variety of human rights
resources easily accessible, the undertaking of country research online comes
with its own unique set of challenges. This guide provides more focused recommendations for
retrieving and applying country and human rights information as a means to
enhance refugee protection.
- Immigration Forms Center
- From the law firm of Siskind, Susser Haas & Devine presents most of the Immigration forms.
The disclaimer warns that the forms may not be the most current ones or that
the form chosen is the correct one.
- Immigration Law
- Via Nolo Press provides a self help site for pro se litigants including
access to the following materials: Coming to America, Visas and Green
Cards, U.S. Citizenship, and an explanation of the Immigration Bureaucracy.
- Immigration Lawyers on the Web
- Provides access to attorneys specializing in Immigration Law. It
also has a daily immigration news page called Immigration Daily.
- Immigration Portal
- Contains a directory of over 600 immigration lawyers (searchable by language, state, and specialty),
has daily and weekly newsletters on immigration news, offers bunches of immigration
forms, offers forums and chats with lawyers and immigrants -- there's just
a lot of stuff here is all! Check it out.
- Tax counseling for Immigrants
- By Richard S. LeVine Esq. has general tax information for
United States immigrants. It provides background to income tax, estate
tax, gift tax, U.S. Social Security tax and some ways that this attorney
can help immigrants protect their money in trusts and other tax saving
plans.
Agency Administrative Materials
- Foreign Affairs Manual & Foreign Affairs Handbooks
- U.S. Dept. of State provides full text
access to the Foreign Affairs Manual and the Foriegn Affairs Handbooks published
by the U.S. State Dept, which is also responsible for visa issuance.
- INS Handbooks and Manuals
- Provides access to the Detention Operators Manual (Detention Standards), Handbook for Employers, NAFTA Handbook, and other guides.
Primary Law
Treatises For Law School faculty, staff and student use only
- BALCA Deskbook
- Provides information on various immigration topics like adverse effect
on wages and working conditions, alien ownership or control, alien's qualifications
for the job, attorney's fees, evidence, good faith efforts to recruit, prevailing wage, terms of
employment and much more.
- Bender's Immigration Bulletin
- Keeps one up-to-date on the very latest happenings in
immigration law. Bender's Immigration Bulletin provides scholarly and
practical articles on new developments by the leading experts, analysis of
the most recent cases, and summaries of new regulations and legislative
changes twice a month.
- Bender's Immigration Regulations Service
- Has INS, DOS, DOJ, DOL, USIA, HHS Regulations
- Here's a portable, up-to-date version of all the immigration regulations you need for your
practice that can be used as a quick desk reference or conveniently carried to court.
- BIA & AAU Non-Precedent Decisions
- Contains non-precedent decisions from the Board of
Immigration Appeals and the Administrative Appeals Unit from February 5th,
1985 to the present.
- Immigration Precedent Decisions
- Contains precedent decisions from the Board of
Immigration Appeals and the Administrative Appeals Unit from February 5th,
1985 to the present.
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
- Are reports issued annually from the Department of State to Congress from 1994 to the present.
- Department of Labor Manuals
- Mainly contains the Field Operations Manuals which itself includes: Identifiers: Lists descriptions of different types of jobs.
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Provides an updated picture of the occupations for which America's
workforce must be prepared. It details the tasks to be performed and the
levels of education that must be achieved. The DOT offers a starting place
from which to address issues of training and education, career guidance
and employment counseling, job definition and wage
restructuring.
- Executive Orders
- Contained here only pertain to immigration actions.
- Federal Register
- Has full text federal register information related to immigration from vol. 60 to the present.
- Foreign Affairs Manual - Citizenship and Nationality
- Contains volume 7 of the Foreign Affairs Manual dealing with
Citizenship and Nationality. It describes the acquisition and retention of
citizenship, Loss and restoration of citizenship, passport services for
U.S. citizens abroad and Registration services.
- Foreign Affairs Manual - Documents
- Includes selected documents from volume 9 part IV of the Foreign Affairs Manual.
- Foreign Affairs Manual - Visas
- Covers volume 9 of the foreign affairs manual concerning visas.
- Illegal Immigration Reform And Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
- Provides a section by section summary of the act as well as Act itself.
- Immigration and Nationality Act
- Provides the full text of the Immigration and Nationality Act (title 8 of the United States Code).
- INS Examinations Handbook
- Provides detailed information on how an INS service inspector should impliment the rules and regulations of the INS in the field.
- Immigration Law and Procedure
- Is one of the most comprehensive resource available today for the immigration practitioner.
- Immigration Law Practice Expediter
- Contains information about immigration petitions and applications.
- INS General Counsel Opinions
- Provides access to General Counsel Decisions of the INS from 1991 to the present.
- INS Manuals
- Contains the following INS manuals: INS Inspector's Field Manual, Asylum Basic Law Manual, and the Law of Arrest, Search and Seizure for Immigration Officers
- Interpretations of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Contains interpretation of the Act that help direct the agency.
- 1999 Lists of Designated Primary Medical Care, Mental Health, and Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas (Matthew Bender)
- (Law Student/Staff Use only) lists the areas in each State that have a shortage of Primary medical care physicians, mental health professionals and Dentists.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook (Matthew Bender)
- (Law Student/Staff Use only) contains detailed descriptions of various occupations and gives projections as to how many people will be employed
in a particular occupation. This is a good resource for career development, making a career transition
of for students just entering the job market.
- Operations Instructions of the INS (Matthew Bender)
- (Law Student/Staff Use only) is the operational procedures and instructions for the INS and their people in the field.
- Selected Statutes in Immigration Law (Matthew Bender)
- (Law Student/Staff use only) contains the following statutes:
- Identifiers:
Administrative Procedure Act, as Codified and Amended (Including Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act);
Refugee Act of 1980;
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981;
Equal Access to Justice Act;
Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986;
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986;
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1986;
Immigration Act of 1990;
Miscellaneous and Technical Immigration and Nationality Amendments of 1991;
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996;
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996;
Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act.
- United Nations Documents/Treaties (Matthew Bender)
- (Law Student/Staff Use only) provides access to U.N. Treaties dealing with
immigration and refugees. Including: Convention relating to the status of
refugees; Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.