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Give your AI a real immigration law library.
BIA Edge connects Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools to a comprehensive immigration law database that is updated every day: precedential cases, statutes, regulations, agency guidance, and 416,927 unpublished BIA and AAO decisions. Your AI searches the library directly and cites what it finds, so every answer can be checked against the source.
Built by a practicing immigration attorney·Free during the pilot·Updated daily
›Is Matter of A-B- still good law for my asylum case in the Fifth Circuit?
Yes — again. A-B- was vacated in 2021, but the Attorney General overruled A-B- III in Matter of S-S-F-M-, 29 I&N Dec. 207 (Sept. 2, 2025), directing adjudicators to follow A-B- I and II. An assistant answering from training data would likely still tell you it’s vacated. In the Fifth Circuit, frame your social group with Jaco v. Garland in mind.
See it work
Watch a real session.
A real question, answered in Claude with BIA Edge connected. Recorded from the live library and sped up 10×.
Recorded in Claude · 40 seconds · sped up 10×
On-point unpublished BIA decisions, with the decision PDFs.
The question in the recording: find unpublished BIA decisions where the Board actually found exceptional and extremely unusual hardship. Here is what happens in those 40 seconds:
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Claude searches the unpublished library
It runs BIA Edge’s unpublished-decision search and pulls the candidate decisions.
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Reads each candidate against the decision text
Candidates that do not hold up on source review are excluded. The recording shows two set aside.
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Returns a short list with the decision PDFs
Each decision links to its PDF and is labeled non-precedential, for persuasive use.
Recorded examples using the live library, August 2026. Not legal advice.
ImmCite
Is it still good law?
ImmCite is BIA Edge’s citator for immigration authority. It tracks how precedential decisions from the BIA, the Attorney General, the Supreme Court, and the federal circuit courts have been treated by later cases, and assigns each checked case a current status.
Before your AI relies on a case, it can look the status up. Each status links to the treatment decisions behind it, so you can read the authority yourself.
Matter of A-B-
27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018)
⚑ valid — reinstated 2025
Vacated by A-B- III, 28 I&N Dec. 307 (A.G. 2021). Reinstated when the Attorney General overruled A-B- III in Matter of S-S-F-M-, 29 I&N Dec. 207 (A.G. Sept. 2, 2025), directing adjudicators to follow A-B- I and II. An assistant answering from training data alone would still call it vacated.
Research tools
What your AI can do with one connection.
Know a case is still good law before citing it
ImmCite treatment on checked precedential cases, with the citing decisions behind it.
check_validitySearch 416,927 unpublished BIA and AAO decisions
The persuasive-authority library you can’t pull from a general legal database.
search_unpublished_casesFind controlling precedent for your circuit
Precedent and federal case law, ranked case-first and biased to your circuit.
search_casesScreen any conviction for immigration consequences
State and federal criminal codes, resolved to the provision text.
lookup_criminal_codeStay current without checking ten websites
New BIA and AG decisions, CFR and Federal Register changes, and USCIS policy updates, pulled in daily.
get_regulatory_updatesTrack priority-date movement
The Visa Bulletin, current and historical.
get_visa_bulletinSetup
Connect in about a minute.
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Using Claude?
Open Customize → Connectors, find BIA Edge in the directory, and select Connect.
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Using ChatGPT?
Open Plugins, search for BIA Edge, install it, and connect when prompted.
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Sign in and start researching
Use Google or an emailed code, authorize the connection, and ask your first question. No access request is required.
https://mcp.biaedge.com/mcp
You can connect immediately from the Claude connectors directory or ChatGPT Plugins Directory — add BIA Edge, sign in, and start researching. The setup guide has step-by-step instructions. BIA Edge uses queries to answer your request and operate the service. BIA Edge does not use them to train foundation models. Your chosen AI client has separate terms and workspace settings. Review the security boundary.
Access
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For attorneys
Use BIA Edge from the AI tool you already use. Free while the pilot runs; paid access will come later.
Connect now →02
For AI products
License selected immigration-law data, citations, validity signals, and source-specific updates for your product.
Talk to us →03
For everyone
The public library is free to search. Citations can link back to real BIA Edge pages.
Search the library →475,000+
Decisions
416,927
Unpublished
47,943
State-code provisions with text
Daily
Corpus updates
Update pipelines run daily; coverage start dates vary by source. See everything in the corpus →
“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
Give your AI the sources it’s been missing.
Free during the pilot · connects in about a minute