Country Conditions Research for Asylum Cases

EOIR (Executive Office for Immigration Review) is the executive agency of Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals. It collects country reports from the U.S. State Department, Foreign Governments, NGOs, and the media.

Annual country reports on human rights practices. The starting point for USCIS asylum officers and immigration judges.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

ACCORD (The Austrian Centre for Country Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation) manages the ecoi.net database, which provides easy and fast access to high-quality and up-to-date country of origin information for all actors involved in asylum cases.

National Document Packages are lists of public documents that provide information on country conditions, updated on a regular basis.

Responses to Information Requests (RIR) are research reports on country conditions requested by IRB decision makers. Contains a 7-year archive.

Country policy and information notes used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.