The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), a division of the Department of Justice, plays an important role in the administration of immigration law. The EOIR supervises both the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge.
The following is a guide to finding administrative regulations and rulings.
Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) deals with "Aliens and Nationality," but many other sections of the CFR also deal with immigration issues. The following resources may be helpful:
Before codification in the CFR, regulations are printed in the Federal Register. For more on the CFR, the Federal Register, and the federal regulatory process, refer to our other research guides:
