What’s in the database

• Large collections of unpublished BIA and AAO decisions — cleaned, deduplicated, searchable, and, where review is complete, tagged for outcome and favorability.
• The published record — BIA and Attorney General precedent, circuit and Supreme Court immigration decisions, curated district court families, BALCA, and OCAHO.
• Statutes and regulations — the INA, relevant U.S. Code and CFR provisions, statutory notes, and selected state and federal criminal-code text from official sources.
• Agency guidance — USCIS Policy Manual, policy memos, the FAM, practice manuals, country-conditions reporting, and visa bulletin history.

The research layer

The documents matter, but so do the links between them. Licensed access can include:

• ImmCite — good-law status and later treatment for precedential authorities, maintained against current official directives.
• Holdings and headnotes — structured research summaries linked to the underlying records, with current coverage available during evaluation.
• Citation graph — cross-references linking cases, statutes, and regulations in both directions.
• Pinpoint passages — exact passages from source documents that a product can quote and link back to.
• Doctrine relationships — reviewed relationships among precedents: limiting authority, related holdings, and doctrine families.

How licensing works

Start the conversation

Tell us what you’re building and which parts of the database matter to you. Pilot evaluations against the live BIA Edge service are straightforward to arrange.

Talk to us →

BIA Edge was built by a practicing immigration attorney. The public library at biaedge.com is currently free; licensing covers product access and bulk database access.