Ask from your agent
Give Codex, Claude Code, or another MCP-capable tool a real research task.
BIA Edge MCP Server
Put BIA Edge inside your AI research agent.
MCP access lets immigration lawyers connect Codex, Claude Code, and other agent workflows to the BIA Edge database, so research starts with retrievable immigration-law authorities instead of generic web search or model memory.
- Designed for
- Immigration attorneys and legal teams
- Connects to
- Codex, Claude Code, and MCP-capable agents
- Returns
- Sources, citations, excerpts, tags, and warnings
Agent request
BIA Edge MCP
Find AAO, BIA, and circuit authority for a source-grounded hardship-waiver research memo.
Authority
BIA + AAO + circuit materials
Evidence
Official links, excerpts, metadata
Guardrails
Issue tags and nonprecedential warnings
How It Works
From agent prompt to source trail
BIA Edge searches the corpus
The agent retrieves immigration-law authorities from BIA Edge instead of guessing from memory.
Draft with citations and caveats
Use source-backed results to build memos, issue lists, strategy notes, and citation trails.
What Access Includes
A research layer built for immigration-law agents
Comprehensive corpus
BIA precedent, unpublished BIA decisions, AAO decisions, BALCA, circuit and Supreme Court cases, statutes, regulations, agency guidance, manuals, memos, reports, forms, legal updates, and pending litigation.
Agent-ready access
Connect BIA Edge to AI workflows so agents can search immigration-law authorities directly during research, drafting, review, and citation-checking tasks.
Source-grounded results
Results are designed around official links, excerpts, metadata, issue tags, outcome posture, copy-ready citations, summaries, and nonprecedential warnings.
Practical onboarding
Beta access is handled directly so your MCP setup can match your agent, practice area, research volume, and source-verification expectations.
Beta Access
Connect your AI workflow to BIA Edge.
To request MCP server or agent access, email chris@chrishammondlaw.com.
Include the tool you plan to use, the research workflow you want to support, and whether you need individual attorney access or access for a small legal team.
Email Chris about MCP access