BIA Edge

Immigration law research for AI tools

Immigration law for AI research

Give your AI a real immigration law library.

BIA Edge lets ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, and other AI tools search current immigration-law materials: precedential cases, statutes, agency guidance, and 415,451 unpublished BIA and AAO decisions.

Connection details

https://biaedge-mcp.onrender.com/mcp

ConnectionRemote AI access
Tools30+
AccessSign-in or API key
Library updated June 19, 2026
Works with Claude · ChatGPT · Claude Code · Codex · other compatible tools

See it work

Watch an AI research with BIA Edge.

Three recorded examples using the live library. The first is a question many AI tools get wrong if they rely only on training data.

biaedge-mcp — trace

Is Matter of A-B- still good law for my asylum case in the Fifth Circuit?

get_case_by_citation("27 I&N Dec. 316")0.2 s
↳ Matter of A-B- · A.G. 2018 · cited by 69
check_validity(case:4359)0.3 s
↳ valid — A-B- III (2021) overruled by the A.G. in 2025; adjudicators must follow 27 I&N Dec. 316
search_cases("Jaco v. Garland")0.5 s
↳ Jaco v. Garland, 24 F.4th 395 [valid] · cited by 126

Yes — again. A-B- was vacated by Matter of A-B- III, 28 I&N Dec. 307 (A.G. 2021), but the Attorney General overruled A-B- III in January 2025 and directed adjudicators to follow A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316, in all pending and future cases. An assistant answering from its training data would likely still tell you it’s vacated. In the Fifth Circuit, frame your social group with Jaco v. Garland, 24 F.4th 395 (5th Cir. 2022), in mind — a group defined by the persecution itself is circular and fails.

⚑ ImmCite · reinstated 2025 Checked against current authority Verify the source →
Recorded examples using the live library, June 2026, condensed for time. Not legal advice.

Setup

Connected in about a minute.

1

Open connector settings

In Claude, ChatGPT, or the AI tool you already use.

2

Paste the BIA Edge address

biaedge-mcp.onrender.com/mcp — then sign in.

3

Ask your first question

Your AI can now search the full BIA Edge library.

No code. No IT department. Access is by request during the pilot — request a connection and you can usually start the same day. Queries are used to answer your request and keep the service running, never to train models.

Research tools

One connection to the immigration-law sources your AI needs.

Full index →
search_cases

Precedent and federal case law, ranked case-first

check_validity

ImmCite treatment — overruled, caution, or good law. How ImmCite works →

search_unpublished_cases

415,451 unpublished BIA and AAO decisions

lookup_state_criminal_code

Crimmigration screening across the state criminal codes

search_passages

Pinpoint source-text spans, ready to cite

get_visa_bulletin

Priority-date movement, current and historical

Access

01

For attorneys

Use BIA Edge from the AI tool you already use. Free while the pilot runs; paid access will come later.

Request access →

02

For AI products

License the immigration-law database, citations, validity data, and daily updates for your product.

Talk to us →

03

For everyone

The public library stays free to search. Every citation can link back to a real BIA Edge page.

Search the library →

471,000+

Decisions

415,451

Unpublished

43,000+

State criminal provisions

Daily

Updates

“I’m an immigration attorney. I built BIA Edge because AI research is only useful when it can check the right immigration-law sources.”

Chris Hammond · Houston, Texas