Useful Links

The following organizations provide valuable information on legal aspects of asylum, deportation, and immigration.

Local Organizations
Governmental Resources
National and International Resources

Local Organizations

Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston
Community Legal Services and Counseling Center (CLSACC)
Greater Boston Legal Services
International Institute of Boston
Irish Immigration Center
Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts
Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Mayor's Office of New Bostonians - City of Boston
Refugee Immigration Ministry

Governmental Resources

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
EOIR - Boston
EOIR Forms
EOIR Virtual Law Library
EOIR Virtual Law Library – Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions
European Court of Human Rights
Federal Register – 1994 forward
FindLaw - Search federal case law, international law
Immigration Detention Facilities - under ICE Office of Detention and Removal
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
International Court of Justice
Library of Congress - Country Studies
Library of Congress – Portals to the World
National Archives and Records Administration
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
USCIS Asylum Officer Training Manual
U.S. Code, Title 8 – Aliens and Nationality
U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Social Security Administration
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) – Federal legislation and regulations

National and International Resources

allAfrica.com – Africa News
American Bar Association - Commission on Immigration
American Civil Liberties Union - Immigrants’ Rights Project
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF)
AILF Legal Action Center
Amnesty International
asylumlaw.org
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Center for World Indigenous Studies - Virtual Library
Derechos Human Rights
Detention Watch Network
Georgetown University Law Center - Asylum Case Research Guide
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch
Immigration Advocates Network
Immigration Equality
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
International Conflict Research (INCORE): Conflict Data Service
International Crisis Group
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Invisible Children
National Geographic Map Machine Online Atlas
National Immigrant Bond Fund
National Immigration Project
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
OneWorld.net - Portal for news from human rights organizations
Physicians for Human Rights
Project Diana at Yale Law School: Online Human Rights Archive
ReliefWeb
Reporters Sans Frontieres
Rights & Democracy
Tufts University Fletcher School - Human Rights Law resources
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - IRIN humanitarian news and analysis
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
University of California Berkeley – Human Rights Resources
University of California Hastings - Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
University of Michigan Law School - Refugee Caselaw Site
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
University of Oxford - Forced Migration Online
Washington Office on Latin America
Women’s Human Rights Net
WorldAtlas.com
World Organisation Against Torture