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Comprehensive Resources for Immigration and Asylum Research

Discover an extensive collection of immigration and asylum resources available through Lexis and Westlaw. This guide summarizes key databases including federal cases, statutes, legislative history, and administrative materials related to immigration. It highlights the importance of searching within the immigration section to find specific asylum information. Additional resources include official forms, handbooks, law reviews, and relevant websites like Asylumlaw.org and Georgetown University's guides. Access essential materials to effectively navigate immigration law and asylum procedures.

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Comprehensive Resources for Immigration and Asylum Research

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  1. Online Resources

  2. Commercial • Lexis and Westlaw are organized to help you easily locate resources within a variety of different databases. • The next few slides contain an edited summary of the resources available on Westlaw. • Although asylum itself is not treated as its own topic area, you can use the databases under immigration to search more specifically for asylum information.

  3. Immigration • Federal Cases • Cases - All Courts (FIM-CS)  - Supreme Court (FIM-SCT)  - Courts of Appeals (FIM-CTA)  - District Courts (FIM-DCT) • Federal Immigration - Headnotes (FIM-HN) • Key Number Service topic • Aliens • Federal Statutes & Legislative History • […] • Federal Immigration Bills (FIM-BILLTXT) • Federal Immigration Legislative History (FIM-LH) • Federal Immigration Congressional Record (FIM-CR) • Immigration and Nationality Act (FIM-INA)

  4. Federal Administrative Materials • Code of Federal Regulations (FIM-CFR) • Federal Immigration - Board of Immigration Appeals Practice Manual (FIM-BIAPRAC) • Federal Immigration - Guide to Naturalization (FIM-NAT) • Federal Immigration - Immigration Primary Source Documents (FIM-INSPUBS) • Federal Immigration - Policy and Procedural Memoranda (FIM-POLPROC) • Federal Immigration - US State Department, Country Reports on Human Rights (FIM-COUNTRY) • Federal Immigration Administrative Decisions Combined (FIM-ADMIN) • Federal Register (FIM-FR) • […]  

  5. Forms, Treatises, CLEs & Other Practice Material • Immigration Law Service 2d (IMMLS2D) • U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Handbook (USCITNAT) • Law Reviews, Texts & Periodicals • Immigration Official Forms (IMMOF) • Immigration Legislation Handbook (IMLH) • West Legal Directory - Immigration (WLD-IM) • International Migration Review (IMR) • Migration World Magazine (MWM)

  6. Websites • Asylumlaw.org • Asylum Case Research Guide from Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Legal Studies • Gender Asylum Law from Center for Gender and Refugee Studies • American Immigration Lawyer’s Association

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