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BIA Edge MCP Server

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 It covers published BIA precedent plus roughly 248,000 unpublished BIA decisions and 167,000 AAO non-precedent decisions, federal circuit, district, and Supreme Court immigration cases, Attorney General and OCAHO decisions,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Its read-only tools cover exact citation lookup, case and statute search, case-validity and treatment signals, unpublished and immigrant-favorable decision search, doctrine and related-precedent context, pinpoint source-text passages, and state and federal criminal-code screening.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.

Publisher claimed. 39 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under legal. Published by biaedge.com.

Status

Pod has not dialled BIA Edge yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 39 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

  • check_validity
  • expand_precedent_context
  • fetch
  • find_in_reference
  • find_in_statute
  • get_case_by_citation
  • get_citations
  • get_district_court_decision
  • get_doctrine_by_case
  • get_doctrine_family
  • get_document
  • get_most_cited
  • get_passages
  • get_reference
  • get_reference_by_citation
  • get_regulatory_updates
  • get_related_precedent_holdings
  • get_statute
  • get_statute_by_citation
  • get_visa_bulletin
  • list_district_court_decision_families
  • lookup_uscis_form
  • query_eoir_stats
  • search
  • search_cases
  • search_country_conditions
  • search_district_court_decisions
  • search_doctrines
  • search_eoir_judges
  • search_passages
  • search_references
  • search_statutes
  • search_unpublished_cases
  • get_corpus_info
  • lookup_criminal_code
  • get_criminal_code_provision
  • get_eoir_profile
  • get_more_results
  • get_research_playbook

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.biaedge.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bia-edge": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.biaedge.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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