Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)

Rule Changes

Receives asylum cases referred without USCIS interviews

A person denied asylum in the United States can no longer file a new application on the same claim. The rule took effect immediately, covering every new and pending asylum application.

Updated Sep 20

Rule Changes

Employing agency for immigration judges

A San Francisco immigration judge says she was fired 48 hours after challenging ICE's detention of a migrant. "If you do something even small that they don't like, they're gonna fire you," she told Bay Area News.

Updated Sep 11

Rule Changes

Directing judges to limit continuances for unaccompanied children to 21 days

An 8-year-old Guatemalan girl attends public school in San Francisco. She also appears alone in Concord immigration court, fighting a deportation case she's too young to understand. Her mother can't accompany her — she lacks legal status and risks arrest.

Updated Sep 7

Rule Changes

Defending a speaking-engagement policy that immigration judges call a gag rule

Immigration judges say the Justice Department has effectively muzzled them: speak publicly about immigration and you need permission, and what you say can be steered into "agency talking points." The Trump administration's response has been procedural. You don't get federal court—go through the civil-service machinery first.

Updated May 15