8 CFR §1003.41

1. (a)Any of the following documents or records shall be admissible as evidence in proving a criminal conviction:
   1. (1)A record of judgment and conviction;
   2. (2)A record of plea, verdict and sentence;
   3. (3)A docket entry from court records that indicates the existence of a conviction;
   4. (4)Minutes of a court proceeding or a transcript of a hearing that indicates the existence of a conviction;
   5. (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;
   6. (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.
2. (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.
3. (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:
   1. (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,
   2. (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.
4. (d)Any other evidence that reasonably indicates the existence of a criminal conviction may be admissible as evidence thereof.