Standards and Procedures for the Enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act

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• Document number: 2016-30491
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: December 19, 2016
• Effective: January 18, 2017
• Agency: Justice Department

Official abstract

This rule revises the Department of Justice's (Department's) regulations implementing a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) concerning unfair immigration-related employment practices. The revisions conform the regulations to the statutory text as amended, simplify and add definitions of statutory terms, update and clarify the procedures for filing and processing charges of discrimination, ensure effective investigations of unfair immigration-related employment practices, reflect developments in nondiscrimination jurisprudence, reflect changes in existing practices (e.g., electronic filing of charges), reflect the new name of the office within the Department charged with enforcing this statute, and replace outdated references.

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