Who it is for
Immigration attorneys and paralegals researching precedent, statutes and case validity.
BIA Edge
US immigration law research across 470,000+ decisions and statutes
Overview
What BIA Edge does
BIA Edge assembles the US immigration law corpus into one retrieval layer. The listing details the coverage: published BIA precedent plus roughly 248,000 unpublished BIA decisions and 167,000 AAO non-precedent decisions, federal circuit, district and Supreme Court immigration cases, Attorney General and OCAHO decisions.
Statutory material sits alongside, covering the INA, Title 8 and related CFR, the USCIS Policy Manual, FAM and agency guidance, with state and federal criminal codes included for crimmigration screening, plus visa bulletins and EOIR statistics. Tools are read-only and cover exact citation lookup, search and case-validity checking. Community tier, documentation published.
Tool surface
Credentials are required first, so forty-two is the listing's count. Exact citation lookup, case and statute search, and case-validity checking are the read-only groupings described.
Availability
Where BIA Edge is listed
BIA Edge is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. BIA Edge has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
BIA Edge publishes 42 tools to Claude, deeper than 88.4% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Legal publishes 11, so this one runs 31 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 4th of 33 by tool count.
It falls in the 21-50 tools band, which holds 20% of the Claude directory.
BIA Edge publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- BIA Edge
- Verification
- Community-listed (61.5% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Legal
- Endpoint
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https://mcp.biaedge.com/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 42 · 21-50 tools band
- Depth rank in Legal
- 4 of 33
- Snapshot
- August 2026
BIA Edge is community-listed in the Claude directory, the tier 770 of 1,253 connectors sit in (61.5%). It is the default for a self-published server, and says nothing either way about quality.
In the publisher's words
How BIA Edge describes it
BIA Edge is a retrieval layer that gives AI agents citation-grade access to the U.S. immigration-law corpus. It covers published BIA precedent plus roughly 248,000 unpublished BIA decisions and 167,000 AAO non-precedent decisions, federal circuit, district, and Supreme Court immigration cases, Attorney General and OCAHO decisions, the INA and Title 8 and related CFR, the USCIS Policy Manual, FAM and agency guidance, state and federal criminal codes for crimmigration screening, visa bulletins, and EOIR statistics. Its read-only tools cover exact citation lookup, case and statute search, case-validity and treatment signals, unpublished and immigrant-favorable decision search, doctrine and related-precedent context, pinpoint source-text passages, and state and federal criminal-code screening. BIA Edge is a corpus-and-retrieval layer designed for the agent to verify source text and synthesize the work product; it does not produce final legal conclusions on its own. Built for immigration attorneys and the AI tools they already use. Access requires a BIA Edge account (request at https://biaedge.com/mcp-access); authentication is OAuth or an issued API key. The corpus is updated continuously, and freshness is reported through a corpus-status tool.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from BIA Edge's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with BIA Edge, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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