When a visa-dependent professional loses a job, a fixed grace-period clock starts. That makes this the one cohort in immigration marketing where urgency is structural, not manufactured — and the trigger event is detectable from public signals the week it happens. A fresh role ending on a person whose career history is visa-shaped is a timed lead: the person must act within the window, and so must anyone who wants to reach them. This cohort is a blueprint — designed, signal-mapped and priced, ready to run as a subscription feed on order.
blueprint · feed format · MEASURED · Outricher data
Employment-visa practices first: transfers, change-of-status and consular-strategy work all start with a person who has just lost sponsorship and a fixed number of days to replace it. Adjustment practices second, for the subset already deep in a process when the employer disappears. And a distinct adjacent buyer: startups and employers hunting suddenly-available senior visa talent — the same rows, read as a hiring shortlist rather than a client list. The feed serves both without modification; only the outreach changes.
Open-to-work flags and abrupt role endings are public and dated. On their own they describe any job seeker; on a person whose career history is visa-shaped, a fresh role ending is the trigger event that starts the clock — and the row enters the feed that week.
→ observed, dated, per-personForeign education plus a career spent at sponsor-heavy employers marks probable visa dependence. This is a proxy and is stated as such on every row: it separates the visa-shaped minority from the general open-to-work population, and it ships with its evidence attached.
→ proxy · evidence-taggedThis cohort only works as a feed. Profiles enter when the event fires and leave when the clock runs out — a static list of status-cliff professionals is worthless by the time it is compiled. It therefore ships as a weekly or biweekly subscription slice, never as a one-off file.
→ weekly / biweekly sliceBlueprint status means no shipped rows to show yet — so here is the row contract instead. Every field group below is either observed from public professional-profile data, or a derived proxy labelled as one. The employment graph behind it holds 5.6 billion dated positions with global coverage, drawing on 400M+ enriched contacts; verified-or-empty is the contact standard.
| Field group | What it carries | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Identity & last role | Name, profile link, last title and last employer — the role whose ending fired the trigger. | observed |
| Role-end recency | Dated end of the most recent position and days elapsed since — the feed's ranking axis. | observed · dated |
| Visa-shape evidence | Education geography plus employer history: where the degrees were earned, how sponsor-heavy the career has been. Shipped as evidence, labelled as a proxy. | proxy · tagged |
| Seniority & function | Level and functional area of the last role — lets a practice or an employer cut the feed to the talent it actually wants. | observed |
| Route context | Transfer, change of status, or next-step petition — the conversation frames an attorney would open with, attached as context, not advice. | derived context |
| Verified contacts | Email verified-or-empty; a null cell is a null cell. Nothing is guessed to fill a column. | verified-or-empty |
Compliant contact is part of the spec, not an afterthought: for individuals in consent jurisdictions the cohort ships as an ad-audience seed plus a pinpoint shortlist reserved for personalised first touches — reach the segment through paid audiences, and reserve direct contact for the rows where a personalised, relevant message is defensible.
The urgency here is real precisely because it is structural — which is also why the boundary of what the data can claim must be drawn in ink before the first slice ships.
The honesty boundary
We observe role endings and open-to-work declarations — not visa status and not grace-period dates. "Visa-shaped career" is a stated proxy built from education geography and employer history, and it ships labelled as one. No row claims anyone qualifies for anything: rows are ranked propensity, evidence-tagged, for an attorney to qualify. Treat every row as a lead for a qualifying conversation, not a legal fact — your intake covers what data cannot.
Before publishing this blueprint we ran a small read-only probe: recent role-endings (2026) at two sponsor-heavy employers, joined to person-level geography and current-position state. Small by design — the point was to test the mechanism, and the mechanism taught us something.
The finding that shapes the feed: 99.5% of recent leavers already display a new position — the raw "role ended" signal alone is mostly re-employment churn. The status-cliff population is the residue: role ended ∧ no new position ∧ open-to-work — which is exactly the compound filter this feed computes, and why a naive layoff list from anyone else is noise. Role families in the US probe slice: business & ops 73 · sales & marketing 43 · engineering 34 · data / ML 26 · product 15.
The feed runs weekly or biweekly, scoped to your geographies and seniority bar. A free 10-profile sample from the first computed slice comes first.
A first delivery contains:
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.
The status-cliff feed runs weekly or biweekly, deduplicated against everything previously delivered to you, and can be cut by geography, seniority or function. Datasets $0.19–0.42 per contact; managed outreach and API delivery available. First sample within 24–48h of a confirmed brief.
Or just write — a consultation is free: we will map this cohort to your practice.
Outricher · Visa Talent Engine · blueprint · feed format · MEASURED · Outricher data