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Data-journalism reports computed from our continuously-verified, primary-sourced figures — each with its sample, method, and limitations stated. Derived from our live data, so each report reflects the figures as they stand today.

  • 7 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Private Measurement Bridge 2026

    Public bridge from ready-for-private-measurement SEO/GEO battlecards to run-now GSC, SERP/AI, authority, market-share, AI-visibility and traffic proof workflows.

  • 7 July 2026

    SEO/GEO External Evidence Bridge 2026

    Public bridge from external-evidence-blocked SEO/GEO battlecards to authority channels, GSC/SERP/AI evidence workflows, market-share baselines, traffic proof gates and local proof commands.

  • 7 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Reviewer Evidence Bridge 2026

    Public bridge from reviewer-blocked SEO/GEO battlecards to reviewer queues, acquisition handoffs, reviewedBy schema gates, P0 page-refresh controls and local reviewer-proof commands.

  • 3 July 2026

    Authority Distribution Plan 2026

    Auditable launch and distribution control plane for turning open data, MCP tools, widgets and original research into off-site citations, links, dataset entities and AI retriever entry points.

  • 3 July 2026

    Crawler and AI Retrieval Access Audit 2026

    Public audit of robots policy, AI/search crawler access rules, retrieval entry points, JSON headers and local server-log proof commands.

  • 3 July 2026

    AI Answer Accuracy Audit Protocol 2026

    Public protocol for grading high-risk AI immigration answers against source-backed Visa Atlas facts, including answer-key coverage, stale-claim traps, local commands and publication guardrails.

  • 2 July 2026

    P0 Reviewed Page Refresh 2026

    Public publication gates for refreshing P0 YMYL pages after reviewer handoff evidence: content-diff capture, source-freshness recheck, legal-advice boundary confirmation and reviewedBy schema review.

  • 2 July 2026

    High-Risk Page Review Acquisition 2026

    Public acquisition controls for sourcing credentialed reviewers for high-risk YMYL page queues: regulator targets, vetting stages, disqualification rules and local-only handoff evidence workflow.

  • 2 July 2026

    ReviewedBy Schema Rollout 2026

    Public schema emission controls for reviewedBy JSON-LD on high-risk immigration pages: blocked-by-default rollout rows, required reviewer evidence fields and local fragment export workflow.

  • 2 July 2026

    Expert Reviewer Entity Program 2026

    Public reviewer disclosure model for high-risk immigration pages: source-editor limits, regulated reviewer slots, reviewedBy schema governance, core-country review queue and credential evidence logging.

  • 2 July 2026

    Knowledge-Graph Entity Seeding 2026

    Auditable entity-seeding controls for source-backed datasets, reports and identity nodes: sameAs governance, approved accession ingestion, JSON-LD export controls and local evidence-log rules.

  • 2 July 2026

    External Data Repository Mirrors 2026

    Repository-ready export manifests, metadata templates, DOI and accession checklists, and canonical backlink requirements for mirroring original Visa Atlas datasets into external data repositories.

  • 2 July 2026

    Publisher and AI-Citation Kits 2026

    Reusable citation and outreach kits for publishers, journalists, researchers and AI retrievers, with canonical URLs, attribution snippets and private evidence-log rules.

  • 2 July 2026

    Quarterly Market-Share Evidence Summary 2026

    Q3 2026 baseline and local rollup contract for summarising reviewed SERP and AI answer-surface evidence by competitor query battlecard without publishing raw private evidence.

  • 2 July 2026

    SERP and AI Answer-Surface Snapshot Protocol 2026

    Auditable protocol for capturing SERP features, competitor source classes and AI answer citations by battlecard query while keeping raw screenshots and transcripts local until reviewed.

  • 2 July 2026

    Battlecard Search Experiments 2026

    A public experiment contract for converting competitor query battlecards into GSC-measured title, snippet, answer-capsule and internal-link tests while keeping private Search Console exports local.

  • 2 July 2026

    Competitor Query Battlecards 2026

    Query-cluster battlecards tying high-intent immigration SEO/GEO opportunities to sampled competitor archetypes, Visa Atlas wedge moves, source datasets, target pages and measurement commands.

  • 2 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Content Opportunity Map 2026

    Auditable priority map for the content pieces, page work and technical changes that support the 500k/month SEO/GEO plan, with competitor wedge notes and evidence surfaces.

  • 3 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Traffic Forecast 2026

    Falsifiable cohort-level planning model for the 500k/month SEO/GEO target, with traffic ranges, assumptions, measurement commands and kill gates.

  • 4 July 2026

    Technical SEO/GEO Control Plane 2026

    Audit-ready control matrix for rendering, indexability, schema, API discovery, AI retrieval, freshness, performance and private-evidence boundaries behind the SEO/GEO plan.

  • 4 July 2026

    Topical Authority Internal-Link Map 2026

    Audit-ready hub-and-spoke crawl-path map tying topical clusters to canonical hubs, supporting pages, source datasets, internal-link rules and evidence commands.

  • 4 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Audit Evidence Pack 2026

    Big-4-style evidence matrix mapping the SEO/GEO dominance plan to public controls, local workflows, remaining external proof needs and private-data boundaries.

  • 4 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Execution Readiness Scorecard 2026

    Cohort-level readiness scorecard tying the 500k/month SEO/GEO plan to content pieces, page changes, technical gates, competitor wedges, private evidence needs and no-go conditions.

  • 4 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Market-Share Capture Plan 2026

    Battlecard-level capture plan tying competitor wedges to content pieces, page changes, technical gates, evidence commands and no-go conditions before any market-share claim.

  • 4 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Production Queue 2026

    Flat production queue for content, page, technical and evidence tickets derived from the market-share capture plan, with owners, target pages, commands, evidence gates and no-go conditions.

  • 4 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Page Action Map 2026

    Page-level join table connecting SEO/GEO target URLs to production tickets, battlecards, answer capsules, citation packs, calculator contexts, commands, source datasets and audit gates.

  • 6 July 2026

    Battlecard Retrieval Coverage Matrix 2026

    Battlecard-level coverage matrix joining competitor query clusters to target pages, page-action rows, answer surfaces, citation packs, AI retrieval prompts, experiments, snapshot protocols and evidence gates.

  • 6 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Dominance Gap Ledger 2026

    Battlecard-level blocker ledger showing which content, page, technical, reviewer, authority and outcome-proof gaps still prevent durable SEO/GEO dominance claims.

  • 6 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Measurement Run Queue 2026

    Battlecard-level queue turning dominance blockers into private GSC, SERP/AI, reviewer, authority, market-share, AI visibility and traffic outcome proof runs.

  • 6 July 2026

    SEO/GEO Release Gate Contract 2026

    Audit-ready deploy gate for SEO/GEO changes: compile, source audits, freshness, optional liveness, production build, rendered crawler output, evidence proof checks and outcome-claim no-go conditions.

  • 4 July 2026

    AI Retrieval Task Index 2026

    Query-level retrieval contract joining benchmark immigration prompts to canonical pages, answer capsules, citation packs, calculator contexts, page actions, battlecards, MCP tools and safe-answer rules.

  • 5 July 2026

    AI Retrieval Readiness Scorecard 2026

    Prompt-level gap scorecard ranking benchmark tasks by answer capsule, citation pack, page action, battlecard, calculator context, MCP tool depth and evidence-gate coverage.

  • 4 July 2026

    Search Demand Action Map 2026

    Decision matrix for turning local GSC, SERP and AI answer-surface evidence into content, page and technical SEO/GEO changes without exposing private query data.

  • 1 July 2026

    Processing-Time Planning Reliability Index 2026

    Official immigration processing-time clocks scored by planning usability: published-window availability, window width, percentile disclosure and source freshness.

  • 1 July 2026

    Skilled Migration Accessibility Index 2026

    Tracked skilled and skilled-adjacent routes scored by planning accessibility across cost, proof-of-funds exposure, salary floor, processing-clock transparency, sponsor requirement, settlement path and source freshness.

  • 2 July 2026

    Immigration Source Transparency Benchmark 2026

    A sampled competitor/source-class benchmark comparing immigration-information surfaces against source transparency, freshness, open-data and AI-retrieval criteria.

  • 1 July 2026

    Immigration Rule Changes 2026

    A 2026 tracker of sourced policy updates and recorded fee, threshold, and processing-time movements, with effective dates, status, source links, and JSON feeds separated for reuse.

  • 1 July 2026

    Monthly Immigration Figure Changes

    A month-by-month archive of recorded immigration fee, salary-threshold and processing-time movements, with old value, new value, source URL and same-month policy context.

  • 1 July 2026

    Skilled Migration Cost Index 2026

    Tracked skilled and skilled-adjacent routes ranked by mandatory non-refundable sunk cost, with refundable proof-of-funds separated and every row linked back to the source-backed cost model.

  • 2 July 2026

    Canada Express Entry Category Tracker, 2026

    Current IRCC category-based Express Entry selection categories, which have drawn in 2026, which have not, category invitations and CRS ranges.

  • 2 July 2026

    Canada Express Entry Draw Tracker, 2026

    Every 2026 Express Entry round of invitations — date, category, invitations issued and CRS cut-off — reconciled against IRCC’s official draw table, and updated as each new round is published.

  • 31 May 2026

    How Long Does Skilled Migration Actually Take? Processing Times, 2026

    How long each major destination’s dominant skilled-migration route actually takes to decide in 2026, the fastest and slowest routes overall, and where no government publishes a clock at all. Computed from primary-sourced data; methodology and limitations stated.

  • 30 May 2026

    The State of Skilled-Migration Salary Floors, 2026

    Where the skilled-work salary floor sits across ten major destinations in 2026, which floors moved over the last 18 months, and what it means for applicants. Computed from primary-sourced data; methodology and limitations stated.

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Visa Atlas, "Visa Atlas original immigration research", https://visaatlas.org/research. Last verified 7 July 2026.

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Underlying datasets (42)

  • Authority distribution plan JSON
  • Embeddable widget catalog JSON
  • Crawler and AI retrieval access audit JSON
  • AI answer accuracy audit protocol JSON
  • SEO/GEO private measurement bridge JSON
  • SEO/GEO external evidence bridge JSON
  • SEO/GEO reviewer evidence bridge JSON
  • P0 reviewed page refresh controls JSON
  • High-risk page review acquisition controls JSON
  • reviewedBy schema rollout controls JSON
  • Expert reviewer entity program JSON
  • Knowledge-graph entity seeding manifest JSON
  • External repository mirror manifest JSON
  • Publisher and AI-citation kits JSON
  • Quarterly market-share evidence summary JSON
  • SERP and AI answer-surface snapshots JSON
  • Battlecard search experiments JSON
  • Competitor query battlecards JSON
  • SEO/GEO content opportunities JSON
  • SEO/GEO traffic forecast JSON
  • Technical SEO/GEO controls JSON
  • Topical authority internal-link map JSON
  • SEO/GEO audit evidence pack JSON
  • SEO/GEO execution readiness scorecard JSON
  • SEO/GEO market-share capture plan JSON
  • SEO/GEO production queue JSON
  • SEO/GEO page action map JSON
  • AI retrieval task index JSON
  • AI retrieval readiness scorecard JSON
  • Search demand action map JSON
  • SEO/GEO visibility metrics JSON
  • Source transparency benchmark JSON
  • Processing-time reliability JSON
  • Skilled-migration accessibility JSON
  • Monthly figure changes JSON
  • Policy updates JSON
  • Fact changes JSON
  • Cost-to-complete JSON
  • Canada Express Entry categories JSON
  • Canada Express Entry draws JSON
  • Processing times JSON
  • Salary thresholds JSON