If you've worked with U.S. immigration cases you may have run across a citation that looks like this:
17 I & N Dec. 450
This citation refers to the Immigration and Naturalizations Decisions reporter. This reporter collects the Attorney General and Board of Immigration Appeals decisions. These are the appeals opinions generated inside the the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is the the agency within the the Department of Justice that adjudicates immigration cases. This means it conducts immigration court proceedings appellate review and administrative hearings. If you have applied for citizenship or residency your case will be adjudicated by this agency.
The EOIR website has this reporter's cases available for download starting in 1958 with volume 8. You can also browse the decisions by topic in a index that covers volumes 21 and forward. Additionally the website has copies of the Immigration Court Practice Manual and Board of Immigration Appeals Practice Manual available.
So if you have a immigration law question the website of the EOIR should be one of your first stops!
Happy researching Oregonians!