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Pathfinder AIDE · for removal defense

Actionable
Immigration
Data for
Everyone.

Pathfinder AIDE provides instant immigration case insights, live change alerts, and an AI researcher that reads the court record, case law and policy, with a source for every answer.

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How Pathfinder AIDE turns the public court record into instant case information.

The name

AIDE: Actionable Immigration Data for Everyone.

  1. A: Actionable

    An alert you can act on today.

    Not a pile of search results: an email the moment a case changes, from a hearing that moved to an appeal deadline counting down. Alerts and AIDE both turn the record into next steps.

    What changed · what to do

    • Hearing moved to Nov 23Prepare for the individual hearing
    • Asylum clock at 150 daysFile the work-permit application
    • Appeal due Oct 2425 days left to file the appeal

  2. I: Immigration

    Built for one area of law, and only one.

    Immigration court records, BIA precedent, federal rules and agency guidance: the sources removal defense turns on, read by an expert team that knows how all the dots connect.

    What it reads

    • EOIR court records
    • BIA precedent
    • Federal Register
    • EOIR policy memos
    • Federal dockets
    • Judge profiles

  3. D: Data

    Every answer comes from the record.

    AIDE answers from what it can cite and shares a link to each source. If the record is silent, AIDE will let you know rather than guessing.

    Right now

    42,518
    records read
    1,294
    added this week
    1,807
    judges tracked

  4. E: for

    So everyone has equal access.

    Solo practitioners, large immigration firms, nonprofit teams, media outlets and advocacy groups. Along with all the immigrant families they serve.

    Who it’s for

    • AttorneysCase intelligence without the research hours
    • Nonprofit teamsResearch help across the whole caseload
    • Immigrants & familiesPlain-language answers about their own case

    Free to use, for every one of them.

I · Where it began

Case alerts. Real-time immigration data. Expert answers from AIDE.

Pathfinder AIDE reads the immigration court record, case law, and federal policy so you don’t have to. Ask a question in plain language and get an answer with every source cited, so you can check it yourself.

  1. 01

    Case alerts

    An email the moment a case changes: a new hearing date, a reassigned judge, a decision. Every morning, we send a “Daily Docket” with everything that moved overnight, so nothing is found out at the courthouse door.

    Email · Your Pathfinder Daily DocketSample

    Changes since yesterday for

    FieldWasNow
    Hearing dateNov 03, 2026Nov 23, 2026
    Immigration judgeReassignedNew judge
    Hearing typeMasterIndividual

    Asylum clock reached 150 days: your client can now apply for a work permit.

  2. 02

    Case history reports

    One click for the complete history of a case, gathered from the public court record and laid out as a timeline you can instantly review with a client, instead of an afternoon of phone calls and portal searches.

    Case History ReportSample

    A#

    1. Notice to Appear filed

      Mar 2024

    2. Master calendar hearing

      Jan 2025

    3. Asylum application received

      Apr 2025

    4. Individual hearing scheduled

      Nov 2026

    Assembled from court records, filings and the judge’s own history, ready to download.

II

II · Then AIDE learned to research

Ask the immigration record anything.

Court records, precedent decisions, federal rules and policy change faster than any practice can follow. AIDE reads them for you and answers in plain language, with the receipts attached.

Every answer cites its sources.
Each claim links to the decision, rule or record behind it, and every one opens.
It says when the record can’t answer.
A clear “we searched, and here is the closest thing we found” beats a confident guess.
Client details stay private.
Names and A-numbers are removed before a question ever reaches the AI model.
Information, not legal advice.
AIDE flags when a question calls for an attorney’s judgment, and leaves that judgment to you.
AIDESample

The BIA dismissed my client’s appeal. Can we still file a motion to reopen?

Generally yes, but the clock is short: a motion to reopen is usually due within 90 days of the final order1, with narrow exceptions such as changed country conditions2.

  1. 1 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2) · regulation
  2. 2 BIA precedent decision · opens the full text

Informational · not legal advice

III · How AIDE works

Trained by immigration experts.

  1. 01

    Ask AIDE like you’d ask a colleague

    No search syntax and no forms. Describe the situation in your own words, and ask a follow-up the way you would in conversation.

    Your question

    How often does the Houston court grant asylum to applicants from Honduras, and has that changed this year?

    Names, A-numbers and other identifiers are removed first.

  2. 02

    AIDE searches real-time immigration data

    AIDE discerns where the answer lives, then reads it: immigration court records, precedent decisions, federal rules and dockets, agency guidance, and what is being reported on the ground.

    What AIDE reads

    • Immigration court records (EOIR)all cases
    • Judge profiles1,807
    • News coverage30,182
    • Community reports6,827
    • BIA precedent decisions5,244
    • Federal Register notices151
    • EOIR policy memos64
    • EOIR press releases50
    • Federal court docketsdockets

  3. 03

    The answer is checked before you see it

    Each claim is held against the sources it came from, citations are confirmed to exist, and the whole answer is reviewed for anything that strays from information into legal advice.

    Before it reaches you

    • Claims matched to their sourcespassed
    • Citations confirmed to existpassed
    • Information, not legal advicepassed
    • Plain-language rewritedone

  4. 04

    You get a plain answer, with the receipts

    A short answer first, then every source it relied on, one click from the full text. When the record can’t answer, AIDE says so and points to the closest thing it found.

    The answer

    A two-sentence answer, the figures behind it1, and the decisions that shaped them2,3.

    1 Court data · Houston2 BIA decision3 Policy memo

IV · Trusted by experts

What experts say

“The potential of Pathfinder AIDE to support legal research and uncover broader trends in immigration data opens exciting possibilities for both legal education and advocacy.”

Daniel Caudillo · Clinical Instructor, Texas Tech University School of Law · Former U.S. Immigration Judge

“As immigration court hearings continue to shift, Pathfinder AIDE has become an invaluable resource for our team. The platform helps us identify youth with upcoming hearings, prioritize outreach, and provide timely court preparation. Before Pathfinder AIDE, keeping track of hearing changes was largely manual; real-time docket updates help us quickly identify youth who need support and adapt to changing court schedules.”

Sierra Kraft · Executive Director, ICARE

“Pathfinder AIDE has been an incredibly valuable tool. One of the most helpful features is the timeline summary, which shows exactly where a client’s case stands when we first take on a case. Many clients are unable to explain their own case history, because the process is complex, and waiting months for a FOIA response can delay our work. Having this information readily available through Pathfinder AIDE has been a tremendous advantage.”

Jackie Mora · Paralegal, Lowenstein Sandler

“Using Pathfinder AIDE, we were able to identify more than 800 active sign language-related immigration court cases nationwide. The platform revealed trends in language coding, detention, and interpreter needs that would have otherwise remained hidden. These insights have strengthened our ability to advocate for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing immigrants and promote more equitable access to justice.”

Celena Ponce · President, Hands United

“Pathfinder AIDE’s reports and insights have become tools that we now rely on daily. The platform is intuitive and Pathfinder AIDE makes many aspects of our work more efficient, allowing our team to respond and adapt more quickly and effectively to the needs of the community we serve.”

Armando Aguilar Lopez · Immigration Defense Attorney

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V · The record

The immigration court, in numbers.

Taken from the data AIDE works from and refreshed as it is, not from a press release.

Removal orders by yearsource 22026, January to August
  • 2019213,740
  • 202097,557
  • 202141,080
  • 2022143,954
  • 2023249,260
  • 2024339,696
  • 2025532,380
  • 2026518,948

2025 saw 13.0 times as many removal orders as 2021. 2026 has already reached 97% of that total.

Alerts change outcomessource 3

Missed-hearing (in absentia) rate, September 2024 to today.

All court cases24.5%
Pathfinder cases13.1%

In absentia means “non-appearance.” A missed hearing almost always ends in an order of deportation.

What AIDE is reading right nowsource 4

42,518
records AIDE reads

decisions, rules, memos, news and community reports

1,294
added this week

the feed keeps moving, so answers stay current

1,807
judges tracked

with their case outcomes, and background where it is published

Try AIDE on your own cases.

Spend twenty minutes with our team and see it answer your questions against the real record.

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Sources

  1. 1EOIR case data via Pathfinder’s Immigration Court Stats, computed September 1, 2026 (as last published). The backlog counts cases whose latest proceeding has no decision; the average duration covers applications filed since 2021.
  2. 2EOIR case data: removal orders issued by immigration judges, by year, through August 2026 (as last published). The figure at the top counts each case once.
  3. 3EOIR case data and Pathfinder’s own case data: completed proceedings ending in absentia since September 2024, across all immigration courts and across the cases Pathfinder’s users follow, as of October 20, 2026 (as last published).
  4. 4Pathfinder AIDE’s intelligence feed (published items only) and judge profiles, collecting since October 2025 (as last published).