{"data":{"id":"us/8-cfr-1003.41","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"8 CFR 1003.41","heading":"Evidence of criminal conviction.","body":"In any proceeding before an Immigration Judge,\n(a) Any of the following documents or records shall be admissible as evidence in proving a criminal conviction:\n(1) A record of judgment and conviction;\n(2) A record of plea, verdict and sentence;\n(3) A docket entry from court records that indicates the existence of a conviction;\n(4) Minutes of a court proceeding or a transcript of a hearing that indicates the existence of a conviction;\n(5) An abstract of a record of conviction prepared by the court in which the conviction was entered, or by a state official associated with the state's repository of criminal justice records, that indicates the following: The charge or section of law violated, the disposition of the case, the existence and date of conviction, and the sentence;\n(6) Any document or record prepared by, or under the direction of, the court in which the conviction was entered that indicates the existence of a conviction.\n(b) Any document or record of the types specified in paragraph (a) of this section may be submitted if it complies with the requirement of § 287.6(a) of this chapter, or a copy of any such document or record may be submitted if it is attested in writing by an immigration officer to be a true and correct copy of the original.\n(c) Any record of conviction or abstract that has been submitted by electronic means to the Service from a state or court shall be admissible as evidence to prove a criminal conviction if it:\n(1) Is certified by a state official associated with the state's repository of criminal justice records as an official record from its repository or by a court official from the court in which conviction was entered as an official record from its repository. Such certification may be by means of a computer-generated signature and statement of authenticity; and,\n(2) Is certified in writing by a Service official as having been received electronically from the state's record repository or the court's record repository.\n(d) Any other evidence that reasonably indicates the existence of a criminal conviction may be admissible as evidence thereof.","path":["Title 8—Aliens and Nationality","CHAPTER V—EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL PROVISIONS","PART 1003—EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW","Subpart C—Immigration Court—Rules of Procedure"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-8.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"7bbd22db707e49e9d178b28e7785369e38801d59ec5029114c7fa3924d279f56","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/8-cfr-1003.40","next":"us/8-cfr-1003.42"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}