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

• Code of Federal Regulations Title 8: Aliens and Nationality
• U.S. Code Title 8 (Aliens and Nationality)

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.