LibGuides: Detaining Families: Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention -- Online Appendix: EOIR Documents

About This Collection

This online appendix for the article -- Ingrid Eagly, Steven Shafer & Jana Whalley, Detaining Families: Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention, 106 Calif. L. Rev. 785 (2018) -- provides public access to materials received by the authors in response to several FOIA requests to the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) and to U.S. Immigration & Custom Enforcement (ICE).

Please cite to this collection as: Ingrid V. Eagly, Steven Shafer, and Jana Whalley, Library Guide, Detaining Families: Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention -- Online Appendix, University of UCLA School of Law, http://libguides.law.ucla.edu/detainingfamilies.

Procedure Manuals and Memorandum

EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, UNIFORM DOCKETING SYSTEM MANUAL (Feb. 2000)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, UNIFORM DOCKETING SYSTEM MANUAL (July 2008)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, UNIFORM DOCKETING SYSTEM MANUAL (Apr. 2009)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, UNIFORM DOCKETING SYSTEM MANUAL (Dec. 2013)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, UNIFORM DOCKETING SYSTEM MANUAL (Sept. 2018)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, UNIFORM DOCKETING SYSTEM MANUAL (Feb. 2021)

EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, IMMIGRATION COURT PRACTICE MANUAL (Mar. 2008)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, IMMIGRATION COURT PRACTICE MANUAL (Aug. 2009)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, IMMIGRATION COURT PRACTICE MANUAL (Dec. 2016)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, IMMIGRATION COURT PRACTICE MANUAL (Nov. 2020)

Memorandum from William R. Robie, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges, Operating Policies and Procedures 84-1: Case Priorities and Processing (Feb. 6, 1984)
Memorandum from William R. Robie, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges, Operating Policy and Procedure 84-2: Cases in Which Respondents/Applicants Fail to Appear for Hearing (Mar. 7, 1984)
Memorandum from William R. Robie, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges, Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum No. 87-1: Automation of the Manual Information System on ANSIR (Jan. 14, 1987)
Memorandum from William R. Robie, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Management Officers, CAP Earliest Possible Release Date (June 1, 1992)
Memorandum from Thomas L. Pullen, Acting Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigr. Rev., to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 93-1: Immigration Judge Decisions and Immigration Judge Orders (May 6, 1993)
Memorandum from Jill H. Dufresne, Acting Chief Immigr. Judge, EOIR, to All Immigr. Judges et al., Criminal Alien Program: Announcement of Decision Concerning Time Restriction for Case Filings in the Institutional Hearing Program (Jan. 6, 1994)
Memorandum from Tom Hetrick to Jill H. Dufresne, Acting Chief Immigration Judge, Proposed Rule on VTC with Comments by Managers, Judges, and the Public (June 15, 1994)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Assistant Chief Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 94-6: Continuances (July 18, 1994)
Memorandum from IHP Working Group to Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Federal Institutional Hearing Program (IHP) Enhancement Plan (Feb. 28, 1995)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to John Clark, Assistant Director, Community Corrections and Detention Division, Bureau of Prisons, Eloy Detention Center (June 22, 1995)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 95-2: Earliest Possible Release Dates on Institutional Hearing Program Cases (Nov. 27, 1995)
Memorandum from T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Associate Commissioner, Programs, to Michael Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, FY 1996 Expansion of Video Teleconferencing Hearing Capability (Dec. 4, 1995)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Interim Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum No 97-2: Notices of Immigration Judge Hearings (Jan. 1, 1997)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 97-6: Definitions and Use of Adjournment and Call-up Codes (Aug. 22, 1997)
Memorandum from Michael McGoings, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge, Institutional Hearing Program, to Immigration Judges in the IHP and Court Administrators with IHP Locations, Earliest Possible Release Date (EPRD) Information (June 1, 1998)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 98-7: Management of the Institutional Hearing Program (Nov. 16, 1998)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum No 01-01: Immigration Court Evaluation Program (Sept. 6, 2001)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum No 01-01: Immigration Court Evaluation Program (Sept. 6, 2001) (revised Sept. 30, 2001)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policy and Procedure Memorandum 01-02 – Changes of Venue (Oct. 9, 2001)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum No 01-03: Continued Detention Review Hearings (Nov. 19, 2001)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Case Completion Goals (Apr. 26, 2002)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 03-3: Definitions and Use of Adjournment, Call-up and Case Identification Codes (July 8, 2003)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Interim Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 04-06: Hearings Conducted through Telephone and Video Conference (Aug. 18, 2004)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum No 05-07: Definitions and Use of Adjournment, Call-up and Case Identification Codes (June 16, 2005)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 07-01: Guidelines for Immigration Court Cases Involving Unaccompanied Alien Children (May 22, 2007)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 08-01: Guidelines for Facilitating Pro Bono Legal Services (Mar. 10, 2008)
Memorandum from Mark Pasierb, Chief Clerk of of the Immigration Court, to All Immigration Judges, et al., Processing Defective Filings at the Immigration Courts Beginning on July 1, 2008 (June 17, 2008)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 08-03 (Amended): Application of the Immigration Court Practice Manual to Pending Cases (June 20, 2008)
Memorandum from Brian M. O'Leary, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Off. for Immigr. Rev., to All Immigration Judges et al., New Case Completion Goals FY 2010 (July 14, 2010)
Memorandum from Brian M. O’Leary, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 11-02: The Asylum Clock (Nov. 15, 2011)
Memorandum from Brian M. O’Leary, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 13-01: Continuances and Administrative Closure (Mar. 7, 2013)
Memorandum from Brian M. O’Leary, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges, Docketing Practices Relating to Unaccompanied Children Cases in Light of the New Priorities (Sept. 10, 2014)
Memorandum from Brian M. O’Leary, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges, Docketing Practices Relating to Unaccompanied Children Cases and Adults with Children Released on Alternatives to Detention Cases in Light of the New Priorities (Mar. 24, 2015)
Memorandum from Print Maggard, Acting Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Revised Docketing Practices Relating to Certain EOIR Priority Cases (Feb. 3, 2016)
Memorandum from Judge Keenan and Matthew Seamon, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to Judge Feldman, Institutional Removal Program in Arizona (July 8, 2016)
Memorandum from Michael C. McGoings, Acting Chief Immigration Judge, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 16-01: Filing Applications for Asylum (Sept. 14, 2016)
Memorandum from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Case Processing Priorities (Jan. 31, 2017)
Memorandum from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedure Memorandum 17-01: Continuances (July 31, 2017)
Memorandum from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedure Memo 17-02: Definitions and Use of Adjournment, Call-up, and Case Identification Codes (Oct. 5, 2017)
Memo from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigr. Judge, EOIR, to all Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 17-04: Applications for Cancellation of Removal or Suspension of Deportation that are Subject to the Cap (Dec. 20, 2017)
Memo from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigration Judge, EOIR, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedure Memo 17-03: Guidelines for Immigration Court Cases Involving Juveniles, Including Unaccompanied Alien Children (Dec. 20, 2017)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to Office of the Chief Immigration Judge et al., Case Priorities and Immigration Court Performance Measures (Jan. 17, 2018)
Memorandum from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 18-01: Change of Venue (Jan. 17, 2018)
Email from James McHenry, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of Judges (EOIR), Immigration Judge Performance Metrics (Mar. 30, 2018)
Memorandum from MaryBeth Keller, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Judges et al., OPPM 18-02: Definitions and Use of Adjournment, Call-up, and Case Identification Codes (June 8, 2018)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Guidance Regarding the Presidential Proclamation Addressing Mass Migration through the Southern Border of the United States (Nov. 13, 2018)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Tracking and Expedition of "Family Unit" Cases (Nov. 16, 2018)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Guidance Regarding the Adjudication of Asylum Applications Consistent with INA § 208(d)(5)(A)(iii) (Nov. 19, 2018)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Acceptance of Notices to Appear and Use of the Interactive Scheduling System (Dec. 21, 2018)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, EOIR Security Directive: Policy for Public Use of Electronic Devices in EOIR Space (Mar. 20, 2019)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, "No Dark Courtrooms" (Mar. 29, 2019)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Guidelines Regarding New Regulations Governing Asylum and Protection Claims (July 15, 2019)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Court Personnel, Use of Status Dockets (Aug. 16, 2019)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Child Advocates in Immigration Proceedings (Nov. 15, 2019)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Legal Advocacy by Non-Representatives in Immigration Court (Nov. 21, 2019)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Definitions and Use of Adjournment, Call-Up, and Case Identification Codes (Feb. 13, 2020)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Immigration Court Practices During the Declared National Emergency Concerning the Covid-19 Outbreak (Mar. 18, 2020)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Immigration Court Hearings Conducted by Telephone and Video Teleconferencing (Nov. 6, 2020)
Memorandum from James R. McHenry III, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Pro Bono Legal Services (Dec. 10, 2020)
Memorandum from Tracy Short, Chief Immigration Judge, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of OCIJ, Revised Case Flow Processing Before the Immigration Courts (Apr. 2, 2021)
Memorandum from Jean King, Acting Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals Personnel, Migrant Protection Protocols and Motions to Reopen (June 24, 2021)
Memorandum from Jean King, Acting Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, to All of EOIR, Cancellation of Policy Memorandum 21-07 and New Method for Updating Adjournment, Call-Up, and Case Identification Codes (Sept. 16, 2021)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Director, Exec. Off. for Immigr. Rev., Internet-Based Hearings (Aug. 11, 2022)

Memorandum from Lynn E. Petersburg, Deputy Executive Officer, Office of Management and Administration, EOIR, to Jim Moore, Telecommunications Specialist, INS, Chicago/Lexington Video Conferencing Pilot Project (Jan. 5, 1994)
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Bureau of Prisons, and Exec. Office for Immigration Review, Enhanced Federal Institutional Hearing Program (Mar. 7, 1996)
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Memorandum of Understanding: Federal Institutional Hearing Program (IHP) Enhancement Plan (Mar. 7, 1996)
Executive Office for Immigration Review, Adjournment Codes (Dec. 2, 2013)
Summary Report by Booz Allen Hamilton, Legal Case Study, Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review (April 6, 2017)
Executive Office for Immigration Review, IHP Locations Identified by BOP in April 2017 (Apr. 2017)
Executive Office for Immigration Review, Detention Locations Where IC Hearings are Held (IHP and DHS) (May 11, 2017)
Memorandum from Jean King, General Counsel, EOIR, to James R. McHenry III, Acting Director, EOIR, Legal Opinion re: EOIR's Authority to Interpret the term Unaccompanied Alien Child for Purposes of Applying Certain Provisions of TVPRA (Sept. 19, 2017)
Memorandum from Jefferson Sessions, Attorney General, Office of the Atty. Gen., to the Exec. Office for Immigration Rev., Renewing Our Commitment to the Timely and Efficient Adjudication of Immigration Cases to Serve the National Interest (Dec. 5, 2017)
Department of Justice, Backrounder on EOIR Strategic Caseload Reduction Plan (Dec. 2017)
Executive Office for Immigration Review, "Map Showing IHP Surge Cites on February 1, 2018" (EOIR FOIA 2019‐380235).
EOIR Case Data Code Key (May 2019)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, Administrative Closure (Nov. 22, 2021)
Memo from Michael Pearson, Office of Field Operations, to Barbara Atherton, Report for the Senate and House Appropriations Committee on the Selection of 20 Video Teleconferencing Sites in Support of the Institutional Hearing Program (May 12, 1999)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, Cancellation of Policy Memoranda 19-05, 21-06, and 21-13 (Apr. 18, 2022)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, Friend of the Court (May 5, 2022)
Memorandum from David L. Neal, Director, Exec. Office for Immigration Review, Internet-Based Hearings (Aug. 11, 2022)

FOIA Requests

FOIA Request to EOIR re Data Entry-CASE (May 3, 2013)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, CASE TRAINING MANUAL, VERSION 4.0 (Jan. 2004)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, CASE IMMIGRATION JUDGE COURSE LESSON PLAN, VERSION 1.1 (July 2, 2010)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, CASE COURT ADMINISTRATOR COURSE LESSON PLAN, VERSION 1.1 (July 2, 2010)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, CASE DATA ENTRY COURSE LESSON PLAN, VERSION 1.3 (July 16, 2010)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT- LEAD AND RIDER ENHANCEMENTS REFERENCE GUIDE (Dec. 13, 2010)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDING USER MANUAL, VERSION 3.3 (Oct. 24, 2012)

Letter from the Exec. Office for Immigration Review, RE: FOIA Request for Copies of the most recent Uniform Docketing Manual for the EOIR, and all Documents Which Govern How Immigration Cases are Assigned to Immigration Judges (Apr. 25, 2014)
Memorandum from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge re Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum 05-07: Definitions and Use of Adjournment, Call-up and Case Identification Codes (June 16, 2005)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, CASE HELP DESK FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (Dec. 23, 2010)

FOIA Request to EOIR re Family Detention Materials (July 6, 2016)
Exec. Office for Immigration Review, Asylum Case Law Synopses
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, EOIR DOCKETING AND SCHEDULING QUICK REFERENCE SHEET
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, JUVENILE BEST PRACTICE TIPS TRAINING
Exec. Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Prioritization of Cases in Immigration Court
Exec. Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Suggested Questions
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, IMMIGRATION COURT PRACTICE MANUAL pp. 4, 9, 113-8 (last revised June 10, 2013)
JUAN OSUNA, EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, MEMORANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL (June 26, 2014)
Exec. Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) – Relevant Applicable Law (July 3, 2014)
JUAN OSUNA, EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, MEMORANDUM FOR THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL (July 6, 2014)
Exec. Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, New York Juvenile Docket Training Materials (Aug. 13, 2014)
EXEC. OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE, FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) RELATING TO EOIR PRIORITIES, DOCKETING, AND ADJUDICATION (AUG. 15, 2014)
Meeting Minutes, Colorado AILA-EOIR Liaison Committee Meeting (Oct. 7, 2014)
Meeting Minutes, Am. Immigration Lawyers Ass’n, EOIR Fall 2014 Liaison Meeting (Oct. 23, 2014)