---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 521"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "521"
heading: "Legal status of EOIR"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/521"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XI — Department of Justice Divisions"
  - "Part A — Executive Office for Immigration Review"
---

# §521. Legal status of EOIR

- (a) **1 Existence of EOIR—** There is in the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) of Justice the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which shall be subject to the direction and regulation of the Attorney General under [section 1103(g) of title 8](/usc/8/1103.md?p=g).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XI, § 1101, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2273.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 107–296, title XI, § 1104, as added by Pub. L. 108–7, div. L, § 105(a)(3), Feb. 20, 2003, 117 Stat. 531, provided that: “The provisions of this subtitle [subtitle A (§§ 1101–1104) of title XI of Pub. L. 107–296, enacting this part and amending section 1103 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality] shall take effect on the date of the transfer of functions from the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization to officials of the Department of Homeland Security [functions transferred Mar. 1, 2003]”.