Coming This June: AILA's 2025 Editions of the INA and CFR

The Immigration & Nationality Act (INA), 2025 edition

This 2025 edition of AILA’s Immigration & Nationality Act incorporates laws enacted through April 2, 2025, including Public Law 119-1, the Laken Riley Act, which was signed on January 29, 2025. Legislative histories are cumulated at the end of the relevant INA section. Other editorial notes, such as sunset provisions, congressional drafting errors, and applicability information, can be found throughout the text. All the immigration-related statutes codified in title 8 of the U.S. Code that are not part of the INA are included in Appendix A.

Immigration Regulations (CFR), 2025 edition

Volume I of AILA’s Immigration Regulations, current through April 2, 2025, covers Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is composed of regulations from the Department of Homeland Security (Chapter I) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (Chapter V). 

Volume II of AILA’s Immigration Regulations, current through April 2, 2025, covers the immigration-related sections of Titles 6, 19, 20, 22, 28, 29, 42, and 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). These titles comprise domestic security, customs duties, employees’ benefits, foreign relations, judicial administration, labor, public health, and public welfare.

Newly incorporated regulations include: 

• DHS final rule permanently increasing the automatic extension period of employment authorization and documentation for certain renewal applicants 

• DHS final rule on H-1B program modernization 

• DHS final rule on H-2A and H-2B program modernization 

• DHS and DOL temporary rule authorizing the issuance of additional H-2B visas during FY2025 

• DHS final rule allowing asylum officers to consider the potential application of certain bars to asylum and withholding of removal during credible fear and reasonable fear screenings 

• DOJ interim final clarifying that immigration judges’ de novo review of asylum officers’ credible fear and reasonable fear determinations shall, where relevant, include a review of the asylum officers’ application of any bars to asylum or withholding of removal under DHS regulations 

• DOJ final rule on case and docket management in immigration proceedings 

• DHS rule adopting as final the Department’s 2016 interim final rule on the requirements and procedures for trafficking victims seeking T nonimmigrant status, with changes including moving the regulations to a separate subpart 

• DHS interim final rule creating the CNMI Economic Vitality & Security Travel Authorization Program (EVS-TAP) to allow prescreened Chinese nationals to travel to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands without a visa under specified conditions 

• HHS final rule on the placement, care, and services provided to unaccompanied children who are referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (the Unaccompanied Children Foundational Rule) 

• HHS interim final rule subsequently removing from the Unaccompanied Children Foundational Rule the prohibition on sharing immigration status information relating to potential sponsors with law enforcement and immigration enforcement entities 

• HHS interim final rule adding 45 CFR Part 412, detailing how the Office of Refugee Resettlement shall investigate and substantiate allegations of child abuse and neglect occurring in certain care provider facilities 

• DOL final rule to strengthen protections for temporary agricultural workers (at the time this volume went to press, enforcement of the final rule was enjoined in multiple states) 

• DHS and DOL temporary rule authorizing the issuance of up to 64,716 additional H-2B visas during Fiscal Year 2025 

• DOL final rule increasing the amount of certain civil penalties for inflation 

• DOS final rule amending the requirements for accreditation and approval by the United States to provide adoption services in intercountry adoption cases 

• DOS final rule permitting the attendance of third parties, such as attorneys and interpreters, at appointments for passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad, and certain other services 

• And more