# 2024-31358: ICE Discovers Email, Makes It Official After Two Years

2024-31358, Immigration Bond Notifications, is a Federal Register rule from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-06, effective 2025-01-06 (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31358
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31358
- Title: Immigration Bond Notifications
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-06
- Effective: 2025-01-06
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

ICE Discovers Email, Makes It Official After Two Years

## Summary

Starting January 6, 2025, people who post immigration bonds and agree to electronic notices will get important bond updates from ICE online instead of on paper. This change makes it faster and easier to receive bond demands and other notices, with no extra costs involved. It’s a smooth switch that keeps things clear and up-to-date without changing the rules themselves.

## Abstract

On August 8, 2023, DHS issued an interim final rule which amended the regulations to authorize ICE to serve bond-related notices to obligors electronically. The rule allowed DHS to electronically serve demand and other immigration bond notices for delivery, order of supervision, or voluntary departure bonds to obligors who consent to electronic service. DHS is now issuing this final rule that introduces no substantive changes from the interim final rule.

## Effects PRIA read

- ICE may serve bond notices electronically: benefit, medium. Starting January 6, 2025, ICE is authorized to serve certain immigration bond notices electronically to bond obligors who consent. The rule names specific forms that may be served electronically, including Form I-340 (delivery demand), Form I-323 (bond breach), Form I-391 (bond cancellation), and F…
- Electronic service only with obligor consent: benefit, low. You must agree (opt in) to receive immigration bond notices electronically; ICE will not use electronic service for obligors who have not consented. If you do not want electronic service, you can still post bonds in-person at an ICE office and receive bond notices by mail.
- How electronic proof of service works and backups: benefit, medium. When ICE sends a bond notice through CeBONDS, the system timestamps when the notice was sent and when an obligor opens it; opening the notice in CeBONDS is the recorded proof of service. If ICE cannot confirm electronic proof of service, it will reissue the notice by mail (certified mail for demand…

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## Sources
- [2024-31358 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/06/2024-31358/immigration-bond-notifications)
- [2024-31358 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-31358.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31358 (as of 2026-06-11).