1.6 - National Qualified Representative Program

EOIR administers the National Qualified Representative Program (NQRP), a nationwide program to provide Qualified Representatives (QRs, e.g. attorneys) to certain unrepresented, detained individuals who have been found mentally incompetent to represent themselves in immigration proceedings by an Immigration Judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals. Program services are provided to qualified individuals under either the Franco-Gonzalez v. Holder class action litigation (which covers unrepresented, detained individuals in Arizona, California, and Washington) or EOIR's Nationwide Policy.