The quietly qualified — an EB-1A / NIW evidence cohort.

The strongest self-petition candidates rarely search for an attorney. Their public professional record already carries petition-grade material — awards, patents, publications, distinguished roles at globally recognized companies — accumulated as a side effect of doing the work. They do not type "EB-1A attorney" into a search box; their careers qualify quietly. This cohort finds those records at scale: a pedigree gate selects the pool, evidence boosters re-rank it, and every row ships with its evidence tags attached.

31,705
qualified profiles in the pool
2,788
leads delivered top cut
137
avg data fields per lead
25:1
funnel selectivity

shipped 2026-06 series · MEASURED · Outricher data

Why they're likely clients. Their careers already carry the structure a self-petition is built on — awards, patents and publications accumulated as a side effect of distinguished work at globally recognized companies, sustained over a median 12 years of seniority. The dataset ranks that propensity and ships each row with its evidence tags attached, so the record is ready for an attorney to qualify — it never issues an eligibility verdict.
Who buys this · and what it replaces

EB-1A and NIW self-petition practices. Inbound brings the candidates who already suspect they have a case; this cohort is the outbound complement — the people with the strongest evidence density in the pool, ranked, most of whom have never spoken to an immigration lawyer. The evidence tags arrive pre-attached, so the first conversation starts from the record, not from a cold pitch.

The signal logic · pedigree selects, evidence re-ranks
S1 · gate

Pedigree gate

Undergraduate degree from a top home-country institution family — premier engineering institutes and their peers — crossed with tenure at globally recognized product companies and 10+ years of experience. Three conditions, all structural, all readable from the professional-profile graph.

→ selects the pool
S2 · booster

Evidence boosters

Awards, patents, publications and active open-source footprint, extracted per profile and attached as tags. Measured coverage on the qualified pool: awards 22.1% · publications 13.2% · patents 8.5%. Boosters never filter — they re-rank, so a thin-evidence senior is demoted, not silently dropped.

→ re-rank only
S3 · route

Route fit

EB-1A and NIW are self-petitioned — no employer-sponsor signal is needed, so the cohort carries none. What it carries instead is evidence density plus sustained seniority: the shape adjudicators read, assembled before the candidate knows they will need it.

→ EB-1A · NIW
top home-country institution family tenure at recognized product companies 10+ years experience US-based · target technical roles awards · patents · publications · open-source — re-rank only
Sample rows · drawn from the shipped delivery

Twenty real rows from the 2,788-lead delivery, ranked by evidence density. Names and most contact details are masked on this public page — the full rows, with names and verified emails, ship in the dataset (and a free 10-profile sample is one email away).

PersonRoleCompanyUndergrad (home country)Graduate schoolExperienceEvidence signalsEmail
A. K.Senior Machine Learning EngineerAppleNational Institute of Technology KarnatakaCarnegie Mellon University16 yrs (7 US)awards 9 · patents 2 · publications 4 · github 28a***@gmail.com
M. W.Silicon Validation Software EngineerAppleBhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri MumbaiStanford University School of Engineering10 yrs (4 US)awards 1 · patents 1 · publications 3 · github 5w***@gmail.com
A. G.Senior Data ScientistApteanWest Bengal University of Technology, KolkataFaculty of Engineering, University of Alberta14 yrs (5 US)awards 5 · patents 1 · publications 20a***@***.com
S. S.Applied ScientistAmazonAnna UniversityUniversity of Melbourne19 yrs (6 US)awards 2 · patents 2 · publications 1s***@gmail.com
B. S.Data and Applied ScientistMicrosoftJadavpur UniversityUniversity of Minnesota-Twin Cities13 yrs (7 US)awards 7 · patents 3 · publications 18b***@***.ca
R. S.Applied Scientist IIAmazonJadavpur UniversityIndian Institute of Management Bangalore12 yrs (4 US)awards 12 · patents 1 · publications 9r***@***.com
S. G.Data Scientist Senior Manager- GenAI LeadAccenture AISavitribai Phule Pune UniversityGies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign19 yrs (2 US)awards 5 · publications 4 · github 42g***@gmail.com
A. G.Senior Data ScientistNielsenJNTUH College of Engineering HyderabadUniversity of Central Missouri10 yrs (7 US)awards 2 · patents 1 · publications 1a***@***.com
A. P.Software EngineerGoogleDelhi Technological UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison11 yrs (4 US)awards 5 · patents 2 · publications 3a***@***.com
P. T.Machine Learning EngineerAdobeVellore Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Mellon University10 yrs (7 US)awards 3 · publications 3 · github 53p***@***.com
F. S.Software EngineerAppleThapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologyVirginia Tech10 yrs (7 US)awards 2 · patents 1 · publications 2 · github 6f***@***.com
S. S.Software EngineerMicrosoftNational Institute of Technology HamirpurUniversity at Buffalo16 yrs (7 US)awards 3 · patents 4 · publications 3 · github 7s***@gmail.com
N. A.Senior Software EngineerNVIDIAIndian Institute of Technology, IndoreUniversity of Michigan13 yrs (6 US)awards 5 · patents 12 · publications 3n***@***.de
S. D.Software EngineerFacebookAnna University16 yrs (5 US)awards 2 · patents 1 · publications 3s***@gmail.com
A. D.Software EngineerGoogleUniversity of PuneUniversity of California, Santa Cruz13 yrs (6 US)awards 5 · patents 3 · publications 6 · github 10a***@***.com
A. B.Software EngineerMetaJadavpur UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison11 yrs (6 US)awards 10 · patents 1 · publications 1a***@gmail.com
V. P.Data ScientistIntel CorporationR. V. College of Engineering, BangaloreArizona State University10 yrs (7 US)awards 2 · patents 2 · publications 7v***@***.com
A. G.Senior Data ScientistSAPUniversity of MumbaiInternational School of Engineering (INSOFE)13 yrs (7 US)awards 2 · patents 1 · publications 1a***@gmail.com
P. K.Software EngineerMetaIndian Institute of Technology, DelhiIndian Institute of Technology, Delhi12 yrs (5 US)awards 2 · patents 7 · publications 2 · github 19p***@***.com
H. R.Senior Software EngineerSnowflakeBirla Institute of Technology, MesraStony Brook University10 yrs (7 US)awards 7 · publications 2 · github 36h***@***.com

Rows are real and drawn from the shipped delivery. Masking on this page: names reduced to initials, email domains hidden except free providers. The full rows — names, verified emails, all 137 average fields — ship in the dataset.

Why this works · the measured funnel

The pedigree pass scanned 4,415,891 profiles across the professional-profile graph → 507,535 US-based in target roles → 69,551 after the home-country undergraduate prefilter → 31,705 qualified2,788 shipped. Funnel selectivity 25:1, and every drop reason is named in the delivery artifacts. Email coverage on this cohort is 48.3% — evidence-dense seniors guard their contacts — and we quote that number honestly: every address is verified-or-empty, none are guessed.

The honesty boundary

Evidence tags mark that evidence may exist at petition grade — counting awards is not adjudicating them. Citation counts and patent grant status are not observable in the profile record, and we say so in the dataset README. The attorney qualifies; the dataset ranks propensity, attaches the evidence, and lets intake start from the record instead of from zero.

The cohort in numbers · measured on the shipped set

Two denominators, stated plainly: the funnel percentages above describe the qualified pool of 31,705; everything below is measured on the shipped delivery (2,778 cleanly-parsed rows of 2,788).

Evidence on the shipped rows · people with tagged assets
771 of 2,778 rows carry ≥1 tagged evidence asset
any evidence asset771
honors & awards591
publications346
patents62

Lower bounds: evidence extraction ran on the 2,431 enrichment-matched rows (87.5%) — the rest may hold more. Median award-holder carries 2 awards (max 19); the deepest patent stack is 27. Twenty-three people carry all three asset classes.

Where they are · states
California543
Texas353
Washington278
New Jersey120
New York87
North Carolina78
Where they are · metros
SF Bay Area345
Seattle273
Dallas–Fort Worth214
New York + NJ149
Austin76
Charlotte / Raleigh74

State known for 2,153 rows (77.5%) — geography cuts for a state-licensed practice are a delivery option, not an afterthought.

Seniority shape
senior individual contributor2,449
manager / lead187
principal / staff106
leadership36

Median 12 years of experience (the 10-year floor is a spec gate, not an accident), median 6 years already in the US. Architect-titled rows run deepest at a median 18 years.

Where they work · employer class
big tech841
IT services & consulting620
other enterprise (10K+)613
mid-size381
startups (≤200)184

73.3% sit inside 10,000+-employee companies — invisible to intent tools, which is precisely why this pool is uncontested.

73.3%
of shipped rows sit inside 10,000+-employee companies
invisible to intent tools
12 yrs
median seniority on the shipped set
85.6%
of shipped profiles refreshed within 12 months
The education arc · top US graduate schools on record
Northeastern83
San Jose State82
UT Dallas47
SUNY Buffalo38
Arizona State37
UNC Charlotte36
Carnegie Mellon35
Stony Brook30

1,572 hold a master's degree, 41 a PhD — the classic home-country-undergrad → US-graduate-school arc, on record for every row. Undergraduate side: 100% top home-country institution families, by gate.

Contactability & freshness · as shipped
verified personal email1,360
phone number93

49.0% email on the shipped set — evidence-dense seniors guard their contacts, and we publish the real number. Freshness holds: 85.6% of profiles updated within 12 months; the records are current, not archival.

Composite portrait
The senior IC with a paper trail
What the modal shipped row looks like — the record reads like an exhibit list before anyone asks for one.

Career

  • median 12 yrs of experience
  • senior IC track — 2,449 of 2,778 shipped rows

Employer

  • big tech — 841 rows
  • IT services & consulting — 620
  • 73.3% of shipped rows at 10,000+-employee orgs

Evidence

  • honors & awards — 591 people
  • publications — 346 · patents — 62
  • lower bound — measured on the enrichment-matched base
CA 543TX 353WA 278email 1,360 (49.0% of shipped)
Composite portrait — assembled from cohort medians and modes; not a real individual.
Get this dataset

Everything above ships as a file you own — and a free 10-profile sample matched to your practice comes first.

A full delivery contains:

  • leads.xlsx — every field for all rows, ranked by evidence density; segment sheets per state and discipline
  • leads.csv / leads.jsonl — the same data for CRM import and programmatic use
  • segments/ — ready cuts: evidence-heavy shortlist, contact-ready, per-metro
  • README — field guide, scoring logic, the full funnel with named drop reasons

Each row is the complete data object — career, education, evidence, contacts, scoring. See what one contact looks like, field by field →

AI outreach agents can draft the first touch straight from these fields — referenced to each person's actual career, so the mail lands with a real person, not a template.

Order this cohort — scoped to your practice.

Re-runs are deduplicated against everything previously delivered to you and can be narrowed by geography, discipline or evidence emphasis. Datasets $0.19–0.42 per contact; managed outreach and API delivery available.

Or just write — a consultation is free: we will map this cohort to your practice.

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