DOJ Launches New System to Track Immigration Fraud Complaints
Published Date: 10/15/2026
Notice
Summary
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is creating a new system to better track and manage complaints about immigration fraud and abuse. This change affects anyone involved in immigration cases and helps law enforcement handle these issues more efficiently. The new system starts now, with a 30-day comment period ending November 16, 2026, and no extra costs for the public.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Your Immigration Fraud Reports Stored Electronically
If you are a complainant, witness, subject, attorney, or EOIR staff involved in an immigration matter, EOIR will store your personal and case information in a new electronic system called JUSTICE/EOIR-006. The records can include names, contact information, date of birth, A-number or EOIR ID, copies of immigration hearing records, digital audio recordings, witness statements, and evidentiary records, and they will be stored on the DOJ EOIR Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Your Records Can Be Shared Widely
EOIR may disclose records from this system to many recipients, including the Department of Homeland Security, Federal agencies (like the FTC), Federal, State, local, territorial, tribal, or foreign law enforcement or licensing authorities, contractors, and the news media, when relevant to investigations or EOIR functions. These routine uses are described in numbered items (1) through (18) in the notice and apply when disclosures are compatible with the system's purposes.
Limits on Your Access and Amendment Rights
EOIR states that information in this system is exempt from 5 U.S.C. 552a(c) and (d), meaning certain records in the system may be withheld from your access or may not be subject to amendment under those Privacy Act subsections. EOIR will publish rules implementing these exemptions at 28 CFR 16.83.
How Long EOIR Keeps Fraud Records
EOIR will retain Immigration Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program case files and data for 15 years after cutoff; Fraud Program newsletters for 5 years after cutoff; working files and items closed without action for 3 years after cutoff, per the EOIR Agency Records Control Schedule DAA-0582-2017-0001. "Cutoff" and retention are governed by that schedule.
No Charge to Public and Comment Deadline
EOIR states there will be no additional costs to the public for this new system, and the notice is effective upon publication but subject to a 30-day comment period ending November 16, 2026. Routine uses will become effective after that 30-day comment period.
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