Research tools
What your AI can search with BIA Edge.
Production exposes the complete 38-tool inventory below to compatible MCP clients. Every tool is read-only. BIA Edge retrieves sources and research signals; your AI evaluates them and prepares the answer.
Cases, citations, and source text
Search and verify BIA, Attorney General, AAO, circuit, district, and Supreme Court materials.
Search cases by name, citation, issue, court, or source.
Resolve an exact case citation and retrieve its case record.
Continue a truncated ranked search window with its signed continuation cursor.
Retrieve authorities a document cites, authorities that cite it, or both.
List frequently cited authorities within the requested source scope.
Retrieve ImmCite status and later treatment evidence for a case. How ImmCite works →
Retrieve stored document metadata, text, headnotes, or holdings by document ID.
Search for bounded source-text passages relevant to a proposition.
Retrieve identified source-text passages and their provenance.
Statutes, regulations, and criminal codes
Search immigration provisions and official state or federal criminal-code text.
Search stored statutes and regulations by text or citation.
Retrieve a statute or regulation by its BIA Edge provision ID.
Resolve an INA, U.S.C., or CFR citation to the stored provision.
Find text within one identified statute or regulation.
Search state or federal criminal-code provisions by jurisdiction and citation or text.
Retrieve one identified criminal-code provision and source metadata.
Agency guidance, country information, and current sources
USCIS materials, agency references, country reports, regulatory updates, and visa bulletins.
Search the reference library with an optional source-code filter.
Retrieve one reference record by its BIA Edge ID.
Resolve an exact reference citation or section identifier.
Find text within one identified reference source.
Search stored country-condition sources and reports.
Retrieve recent immigration-related regulatory updates.
Retrieve current or historical visa-bulletin priority-date information.
Retrieve current stored USCIS form, edition, and filing information.
Unpublished and district-court decisions
Nonprecedential decisions are returned with source and status information for proper labeling.
Search unpublished BIA and AAO decisions, including an optional reviewed favorable-result filter.
List organized federal district-court decision families.
Search nonprecedential federal district-court opinions and orders.
Retrieve one district-court decision record and available source text.
Reviewed doctrine relationships
Reviewed, published links among precedential authorities.
Search reviewed doctrine families and linked precedent cases.
Retrieve reviewed doctrine relationships for an identified case.
Retrieve one reviewed doctrine family and its authorities.
Expand an authority into related reviewed precedent context.
Retrieve holdings from reviewed related precedential authorities.
EOIR statistics
Descriptive source data with filters, denominators, and coverage caveats.
Find EOIR judge profiles by name or court.
Query supported EOIR statistical measures and filters.
Retrieve one EOIR profile with source metadata and caveats.
Routing, corpus status, and research method
Compatibility, source-routing, and bounded research aids.
Retrieve source coverage, routing codes, and freshness information.
Search across supported BIA Edge item types through the generic MCP route.
Retrieve an item returned by the generic search route.
Retrieve BIA Edge’s source-verification, tool-routing, and unpublished-routing research method.
Static production inventory
Production clients receive all 38 tools at connection time. The tool surface is static: there are no toolsets to activate before using a specialist tool.