Response to OMB questions on Terms of Clearance

EOIR Response to OMB’s questions on Terms of Clearance for 1125-0010

The EOIR-29 Notice of Appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals from a

Decision of a USCIS Officer, is currently available in Portable Document

Format (PDF) on the Department of Justice

http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/eoirforms/instru29.htm and the U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration Services

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/forms/eoir-29.htm websites.

Since the time of the last OMB approval of the EOIR-29, the agency has

made the form available online, as well as form-fillable, putting EOIR

partially in compliance with GPEA

Conversion of the EOIR-29 form (along with many other EOIR forms) to a

fully GPEA-compliant electronic transaction is part of EOIR's eWorld

Project. In EOIR's October 2003 GPEA update, it was noted that funding

for the eWorld project was problematic, since eWorld initiatives were

being funded with EOIR's base funds. Since that time, funding

constraints have adversely affected the project. The e-Filing phase of

eWorld, which includes the ability to file forms electronically, was

expected to commence in FY 2006. It has been delayed to provide focus

and resources to higher priority projects such as the implementation of

CASE, the Immigration Review Information Exchange System (IRIES) and

Digital Audio Recording. It should also be noted that the conversion of

the PDF forms to electronic transactions is dependent upon the

completion of the CASE Implementation and Immigration Review Information

Exchange System (IRIES). Because of these dependencies, specific

timelines as to when the forms conversion will occur are yet to be

determined.