Executive Office for Immigration Review
Check Case Status
The official status tool and its limits.
Immigration court records
Case status is useful. The court notice is the official record.
GuideWeSpeakLaw EditorialUpdated August 27, 2026Sources reviewed
EOIR offers status tools, court contacts and record-request routes. Each answers a different question, and none should be treated as a substitute for the actual notice or order.
Official record
Primary sources
Executive Office for Immigration Review
How to Submit a FOIA Request
How EOIR distinguishes its records and handles privacy-protected requests.
Executive Office for Immigration Review
FOIA Opinions and Orders
EOIR’s official collection of published agency decisions.
Check status, then read the notice
EOIR’s automated system provides basic status information for certain immigration-court and Board of Immigration Appeals matters. EOIR warns that not every case or every detail appears there.
For a hearing date or other case instruction, use the court document itself. EOIR identifies hearing notices as the official source and directs readers to the immigration court when clarification is needed.
Ask the agency that actually keeps the record
EOIR maintains immigration-court and Board records; it is not part of the Department of Homeland Security. A request about a DHS application or file belongs with the relevant DHS component, not EOIR.
When requesting an EOIR Record of Proceeding, use the agency’s current instructions and provide enough identifying information for the record to be located. Requests for another person’s nonpublic information raise authorization and privacy requirements.
Separate published decisions from an individual file
EOIR publishes precedent decisions and other agency materials through its FOIA and virtual-law-library resources. Those materials can explain an agency rule or interpretation.
A published decision is not an individual case file. Keep the A-number and private documents secure, and rely on the actual record for what happened in a particular matter.
Corrections
Updated August 27, 2026. No corrections are recorded.