On January 27, 2025, the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) issued a memorandum, EOIR’s Core Policy Values. The memo states that more guidance on the values of its “core mission” of “integrity, impartiality, and the decisional independence of its adjudicators” will be forthcoming but that EOIR’s “primary policy-formulating principle going forward will be to restore these values as the pillars of all of its activities.”
The memo includes various admonishments against how the EOIR was managed before the current administration and advises that EOIR employees “should not read policies obtusely or ridiculously, and all policies should be read with a modicum of common sense,” among other things.
The memo also states that “EOIR has reconstructed the Policy Manual as it was in effect as of January 2021 and will update it, as appropriate, once it is available online. To that point, the policies contained in the Policy Manual as of January 2021 are re-established as EOIR policies.”
A list of EOIR memoranda is available on EOIR’s website.