# BIA Edge — AI Connector BIA Edge publishes 42 MCP tools to Claude. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint. Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/bia-edge/ --- [AI Connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/) · [Legal](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/) # BIA Edge US immigration law research across 470,000+ decisions and statutes Listed in Claude · 42 published tools · Community-listed [Claude connector docs](https://biaedge.com/docs) [biaedge.com](https://biaedge.com/) 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 The listing details the coverage: published BIA precedent plus roughly 248,000 unpublished BIA decisions and 167,000 AAO non-precedent decisions, federal circuit, district and Supreme Court immigration cases, Attorney General and OCAHO decisions.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. ### Who it is for Immigration attorneys and paralegals researching precedent, statutes and case validity. ### 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 `https://mcp.biaedge.com/mcp` Documentation [Publisher setup docs](https://biaedge.com/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. Nearby ## Other Legal connectors ### [DirectCase Legal Search](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/directcase-legal-search/) National and European legal research with a source on every claim Claude ### [JUDY](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/judy/) Case law and legislation from Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya Claude ### [CiteLaw](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/citelaw/) US case law, statutes and regulations with verifiable citations Claude ### [DingDuff](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/dingduff/) Primary US legal authority with deterministic citation review Claude ### [DocketBird](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/docketbird/) 283M federal court filings and the litigation relationships behind them Claude ### [Jusratio BR](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/jusratio-br/) Brazilian case law and legislation ranked by legal authority Claude [All 33 Legal connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/legal/) 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. ## Want your company reachable inside ChatGPT and Claude? Node8 builds MCP servers end to end: deciding which tools are worth exposing, the authentication and permission model, the review submissions, and the onboarding that gets them used. One server serves ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. [See how it works](https://node8.ai/mcp) Book a strategy session