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  1. January 2025

    1. January 31, 2025 2.0

      EOIR's Office of Legal Access Programs Condemned as "Wasteful"

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Change in Practice

      Current Status

    2. January 31, 2025 2.0

      Attorney General designates BIA decision for publication

      Hearings and AdjudicationsEnforcementDetention AGEOIRDOJ Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    3. January 30, 2025 2.0

      EOIR Acting Director issues guidance on Laken Riley Act

      DetentionHearings and Adjudications DHSEOIRAG Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    4. January 30, 2025 2.0

      EOIR Acting Director Reinstates Trump 1.0 Memo on Fees

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Change in Practice

      Current Status

    5. January 29, 2025 2.0

      EOIR Acting Director Reinstates Trump Memo on Pro Bono Representation

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    6. January 29, 2025 2.0

      EOIR Acting Director rescinds guidance on DHS "Prosecutorial Discretion"

      Hearings and Adjudications DHSEOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    7. January 29, 2025 2.0

      EOIR Acting Director Reinstates Trump Guidelines for Children's Cases

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    8. January 28, 2025 2.0

      EOIR's Resurrected Policy Manual Omits Service through ECAS

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    9. January 27, 2025 2.0

      Acting EOIR Director issues PM 25-04 rescinding PM 21-16 and attacking BIA management

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    10. January 27, 2025 2.0

      Acting EOIR Director issues PM 25-02 to restore EOIR "core values" and Policy Manual

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

    11. January 22, 2025 2.0

      DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop work on legal-aid programs

      Hearings and Adjudications DOJ ReportedIn LitigationRescinded Agency Directive

      Current Status

    12. January 20, 2025 2.0

      Reported: DOJ Fires EOIR Career Leadership

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Reported

      Current Status

  1. January 2021

    1. January 14, 2021

      Acting Attorney General issues a second Matter of A-B- to provide "additional guidance" on asylum

      Hearings and Adjudications AGEOIR Final/Actual Adjudication
    2. January 13, 2021

      EOIR announces interactive Policy Manual to access BIA and Immigration Court Practice Manuals

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

      Partially in effect
    3. January 12, 2021

      EOIR Director issues policy memo on rulemakings and federal court orders

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

      Fully in Effect
    4. January 11, 2021

      DOL issues direct final rule on e-filing and e-service for ARB proceedings

      Hearings and AdjudicationsNon-Immigrant Visas: Employment-Based DOL Final/Actual Rule
    5. January 11, 2021

      DOL announces proposed rulemaking and direct final rule on e-filing and e-service for Office of Administrative Law Judges proceedings

      Hearings and AdjudicationsNon-Immigrant Visas: Employment-Based DOL Proposed Rule
    6. January 8, 2021

      EOIR Director issues guidance to restrict continuances

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive
  1. December 2020

    1. December 31, 2020

      EOIR Director rescinds two more OPPMs

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/ActualRescinded Agency Directive

      Current Status

      Fully in Effect
    2. December 28, 2020

      EOIR releases factsheet on "Myths vs. Facts About Immigration Proceedings"

      Hearings and AdjudicationsAsylum, Withholding and CAT EOIR Final/Actual Data and Reports

      Current Status

      Fully in Effect
    3. December 22, 2020

      EOIR Director rescinds five more OPPMs

      Hearings and AdjudicationsU/T/VAWA EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive

      Current Status

      Fully in Effect
    4. December 18, 2020

      EOIR dramatically increases fees for appeals, applications, and motions

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/ActualIn Litigation Rule

      Current Status

      Partially in effect
    5. December 18, 2020

      EOIR Director issues policy memo on fees and fee waivers

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/Actual Agency Directive
    6. December 16, 2020

      New EOIR regs restrict admin closure, curtail BIA decisional authorities, and truncate briefing

      Hearings and Adjudications EOIR ProposedIn LitigationEnjoined/VacatedRescinded Rule
    7. December 16, 2020

      EOIR imposes tougher procedures for asylum and withholding of removal

      Asylum, Withholding and CATHearings and Adjudications EOIR Final/ActualIn LitigationEnjoined/Vacated Rule

      Current Status

      Not in effect