St. Paul Field Office — ICE ERO Area of Responsibility

The St. Paul Field Office is one of the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) field offices that supervise detention and removal operations across the United States. This office oversees 16 detention facilities physically located in: IA, MN, ND, NE, SD, WI.

Each ICE ERO field office has a defined Area of Responsibility (AOR). ICE’s field-office directory (updated Sep 2, 2026) lists this office’s AOR as: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. It lists the office at 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111, phone (612) 409-7799, or (612) 843-8723 on weekends and holidays. The same directory states that ICE’s field offices are not check-in locations; to find a check-in location, schedule or change an appointment, or update an address, ICE points to its ICE Check-in page. For further assistance after contacting the field office, ICE points to its ERO Contact Form or the ICE Detention and Reporting and Information Line, 1-888-351-4024. A non-citizen physically arrested in one AOR may be transferred to a detention facility in another AOR; ICE policy requires notice of transfer but does not require advance notice to family or attorneys.

ICE check-in locations listed under the St. Paul Field Office

ICE publishes check-in locations in a Check-In Locations directory that is separate from its field-office directory. That directory (marked “Updated: 03/04/2025”; checked October 15, 2026) lists 10 check-in locations with the St. Paul Field Office as the parent office. Addresses, phone numbers, appointment times and coverage areas below are ICE’s text as published. To schedule or change a check-in appointment or update an address, ICE points to its ICE Check-in page.

• Cedar Rapids, IA (St. Paul Field Office): 3351 Square D Drive SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Phone (319) 221-1556. Appointment times: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Counties of Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Cedar, Chickasaw, Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Henry, Howard, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Mitchell, Muscatine, Scott, Tama, Van Buren, Washington, Winneshiek.
• Des Moines, IA (St. Paul Field Office): 210 Walnut St. Suite 359, Des Moines, IA 50309. Phone (515) 829-3001. Appointment times: Tuesday, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Central Iowa counties: Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Boone, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Clarke, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Franklin, Greene, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Jasper, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Polk Ringgold, Story, Taylor, Union, Wapello, Warren, Wayne, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, Wright.
• Grand Forks, ND (St. Paul Field Office): 124 N. 6th Street, Grand Forks, ND 58203. Phone (701) 772-1972. Appointment times: Wednesday, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Northwestern Minnesota Counties - Wilkin, Otter Tail, Becker, Clay, Norman, Mahnomen, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Kittson, Roseau, Lake of the Woods, Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Wadena, Cass, Itasca, Koochiching. North Dakota Counties - Adams, Barnes, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Divide, Dunn, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Golden Valley, Grand Forks, Grant, Griggs, Hettinger, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McHenry, McIntosh, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Mountrail, Nelson, Oliver, Pembina, Pierce, Ramsey, Ransom, Renville, Richland, Rolette, Sargeant, Sheridan, Sioux, Slope, Stark, Steele, Stutsman, Towner, Traill, Walsh, Ward, Wells, Williams.
• Grand Island, NE (St. Paul Field Office): 703 South Webb Road, Suite D, Grand Island, NE 68803. Phone (308) 385-1450. Appointment times: Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Keya Paha, Boyd, Brown, Rock, Holt, Blaine, Loup, Garfield, Wheeler, Valley, Greeley, Sherman, Howard, Buffalo, Kearney, Franklin, Webster, Adams, Hall, Boone, Nance, Merrick, Hamilton, York, Polk, Platte, Butler, Seward, Fillmore, Saline, Thayer, Jefferson, Nuckolls, Clay.
• North Platte, NE (St. Paul Field Office): 300 E. 3rd Street, Suite 110, North Platte, NE 69101. Phone (308) 535-2530. Appointment times: Tuesday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Sioux, Dawes, Sheridan, Cherry, Box Butte, Scotts Bluff Banner, Kimball, Cheyenne, Morrill, Deuel, Grant, Arthur, Keith, Perkins, Chase, Dundy, Hitchcock, Hayes, Lincoln, McPherson, Hooker, Thomas, Logan, Custer, Dawson, Frontier, Red Willow, Furnas, Gosper, Phelps, Harlan.
• Omaha, NE (St. Paul Field Office): 1717 Ave H, Omaha, NE 68110. Phone (402) 536-4861. Appointment times: Tuesday and Thursday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Nebraska Counties: Colfax, Dodge, Washington, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Cass, Otoe, Lancaster, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson. Iowa Counties: Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Cass, Pottawattamie, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Fremont. ICE’s special instructions: The Check-In Window is in the USCIS Lobby (Main Entrance).
• Rapid City, SD (St. Paul Field Office): 1516 Fountain Plaza Drive, Rapid City, SD 57702. Phone (605) 355-4300. Appointment times: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Western SD counties – Harding, Butte, Lawrence, Pennington, Custer, Fall River, Perkins, Meade, Shannon, Corson, Ziebach, Haakon, Jackson, Bennett, Dewey, Stanley, Jones, Mellette.
• Sioux City, IA (St. Paul Field Office): 3301 Singing Hills Boulevard, Suite B, Sioux City, IA 51106. Phone (712) 293-5219. Appointment times: Tuesday, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Western Iowa counties – Buena Vista, Calhoun Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickenson, Emmett, Humboldt, Ida, Kossuth, Lyon, Monona, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Woodbury. Eastern Nebraska Counties – Antelope, Burt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Knox, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Thurston, Wayne.
• Sioux Falls, SD (St. Paul Field Office): 2708 N. 1st Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104. Phone (605) 330-4276. Appointment times: Wednesday, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Southwestern Minnesota Counties - Pipestone, Nobles, Rock, Jackson, Cottonwood, Murray, Lincoln. Eastern South Dakota Counties - Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Dewey, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Gregory, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hutchinson, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Lyman, Marshall, McCook, McPherson, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Perkins, Potter, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Sully, Todd, Tripp, Turner, Union, Walworth, Yankton.
• St. Paul, MN (St. Paul Field Office): 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111. Phone (612) 843-8600. Appointment times: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Area coverage as ICE lists it: Counties - Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Chippewa, Chisago, Cook, Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Grant, Hennepin, Houston, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Lake, Le Sueur, Lyon, McLeod, Martin, Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Olmstead, Pine, Pope, Ramsey, Redwood, Renville, Rice, Saint Louis, Scott, Sherburne, Sibley, Searns, Steele, Stevens, Swift, Todd, Traverse, Wabasha, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Winona, Wright, Yellow Medicine. ICE’s special instructions: Check-in at ERO Main Reception/Bond Suite 1601.

Facilities under the St. Paul Field Office

Other facilities holding ICE detainees

ICE’s own detention statistics (the FY2026 spreadsheet released July 20, 2026) list the following facilities as holding people in ICE custody. They were not in ICE’s online facility directory when the table above was built (September 9, 2026), so their pages draw on the operator (sheriff’s office, state agency or company) and on any page ICE has published since.

How transfers between field offices work

ICE may transfer a detainee from a facility in one ERO field office’s AOR to a facility in another AOR for operational reasons (bed-space availability, medical needs, removal-flight staging). PBNDS 2011 standard 7.4 (Detainee Transfers) states that “[t]he legal representative-of-record shall be notified as soon as practicable, but no later than 24 hours after the detainee is transferred, in accordance with sound security practices.” That standard sets no deadline for updating the Online Detainee Locator System — it does not mention ODLS at all — and ICE publishes no ODLS refresh interval anywhere, so after a transfer a family should check locator.ice.gov repeatedly rather than treat one empty result as final. Family members are not notified directly.

Where cases from this office are heard

Immigration cases supervised by the St. Paul Field Office are heard at EOIR immigration courts in Minnesota, Nebraska. EOIR’s administrative control list shows no immigration court seated in Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, so cases from ICE facilities there are docketed to a court in another state — check the immigration court directory for the current assignment. The courts physically located in Minnesota, Nebraska:

Detained dockets move fast — hearings can be scheduled within weeks. Find judge-level hearing links on the immigration court pages.

287(g) agreements in this office's area

ICE's field-office directory gives this office's area as: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. ICE's 287(g) participating-agencies workbook, dated October 9, 2026, records in that area:

Most recent agreements in the area (by signing date):

Sources: ICE, 287(g) program (participating-agencies workbook) and ICE's field-office directory. A 287(g) agreement is between ICE and a state or local law-enforcement agency; it is not an ICE office or a check-in location. What each model means.

BIA-recognized legal help in this area

The Department of Justice recognizes nonprofit organizations whose accredited representatives can lawfully represent people in immigration proceedings:

• Iowa: 16 offices run by 13 recognized organizations — most offices in Des Moines, Davenport, Cedar Rapids
• Minnesota: 22 offices run by 15 recognized organizations — most offices in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Mankato
• North Dakota: 2 active recognized organizations — most offices in Fargo, Grand Forks
• Nebraska: 24 offices run by 11 recognized organizations — most offices in Lincoln, Omaha, Grand Island
• South Dakota: 2 active recognized organizations — most offices in Sioux Falls
• Wisconsin: 24 offices run by 17 recognized organizations — most offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Racine

Sources: EOIR immigration court directory and the DOJ Recognition & Accreditation roster (April 2026 report). Court assignments and rosters change — verify before relying on them.

Related resources

• All ERO field offices
• ICE Online Detainee Locator (official): locator.ice.gov
• Know Your Rights — ICE encounters
• BIA-recognized legal aid (by state)

Information current as of 2026-05-27 based on the official ICE.gov detention facility directory and ERO field office listings. Facility designations and field office areas of responsibility may change. This page is general information, not legal advice.