BIA Edge

Helpful-first access to BIA and AAO nonprecedent decisions

Non-precedential decisions only. Use these decisions for issue spotting, persuasive strategy, and fact-pattern research. Verify quotations and controlling authority before filing.
Open Immigration Judge Decisions

Trial-level public IJ decisions are kept in a separate corpus with source, privacy, and text-quality metadata.

Start with verified immigrant-favorable decisions

Helpful-first mode is limited to BIA and AAO nonprecedents where the immigrant won or DHS/USCIS lost. Widen to the full corpus for adverse, mixed, unknown-direction, procedural, or complete topical coverage.

--Verified wins
--Total corpus

Browse by category

Pick a BIA issue category or AAO benefit category. The results stay in the current research mode, so helpful-first category browsing starts with verified immigrant-side wins.

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Helpful-first mode uses verified immigrant-favorable decisions; all-corpus mode includes adverse, mixed, and unknown-direction topical matches.

Unpublished Decisions

Search helpful nonprecedent decisions

Start with an issue, case name, category, or source. The default view shows curated BIA and AAO decisions where the immigrant-side party won, received a remand, or had an adverse decision withdrawn.