About
What this is, where the data comes from, and what the service does not do.
What this is
Asylum Beacon is a web service built on U.S. immigration court data: statistics by judge and court, and a way to find your own record with its hearing history, decoded adjournment reasons and an asylum clock estimate. Russian and English interface.
Where the data comes from
From the monthly EOIR Case Data release that the U.S. Department of Justice publishes in its FOIA Library. It is a U.S. public domain work: there are no restrictions on use or republication. We add nothing of our own — we type the columns, compute aggregates, and substitute descriptions from EOIR's own lookup tables.
The source contains no names
Personal identifiers are stripped before publication under FOIA. Neither names nor A-numbers exist in the release, so a name search is impossible in principle rather than by our choice. Dates of birth are truncated to month and year in the source and are present for roughly half the records.
What the service does not do
It does not give legal advice, does not predict how a case will end, does not show current case status, and contains no decision texts. For current status use ACIS and Respondent Access; for documents, request the Record of Proceeding from the court.
Independence
This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government, with EOIR, or with the Department of Justice. It is not an official source and cannot be one.
Data comes from the monthly EOIR Case Data release (U.S. DOJ FOIA Library). This service is not affiliated with the U.S. government and does not provide legal advice. The data lags by roughly a month; for current case status use ACIS and Respondent Access. The source is known to have missing records, including relief applications — absent data does not mean it is absent from your case.