By Matt Gordon, Esq. | E3 Legal Advisors PLLC | July 9, 2026 For most of the EB-5 program’s history, investors and sponsors put their time, attention and money into urban high-unemployment TEA projects. The 2022 RIA changed everything by giving an adjudicatory preference to rural projects, and, as classical economic theory predicts, the market […]
By Matthew Gordon, Esq. | E3 Legal Advisors PLLC | July 2026 Since the passage of the RIA — the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act — in 2022, the industry has clamored for rules to fill in the gaps so we could all understand how things are supposed to work. We’re now more than four years, or 80 percent, […]
What It Means for EB-5 Investors. USCIS just recentered the I-485 from an eligibility filing into a discretionary, equities-driven one — and EB-5 investors who entered on the wrong kind of visa are the ones most exposed. By Matt Gordon, Esq. | E3 Legal Advisors PLLC | May 2026 On May 21, 2026, USCIS published […]
The administration’s pay-to-immigrate scheme has produced exactly one approval. The post-mortem matters less than what comes next: the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 sunsets in less than a year and a half, and there are real lessons here Congress can use. Matthew Gordon, Esq. | E3 Legal Advisors PLLC | April 29, 2026 […]
As Seen In EB5Investors.com April 15, 2026 | Staff Report Matthew Gordon, CEO of E3 Investment Group and managing attorney at E3 Legal Advisors PLLC, was quoted in a new EB5Investors.com article examining how the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed prevailing wage rule — designed to raise minimum wages for foreign workers — could paradoxically […]
Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ Set Off Panic in an Unexpected Place: Real Estate; DealBook Newsletter The New York Times Link to Article: Click Here March 1, 2025 Saturday 23:10 EST Copyright 2025 The New York Times Company All Rights Reserved Section: BUSINESS; dealbook Length: 2215 words Byline: Sarah Kessler, Sarah Kessler is an editor for the […]
DHS has published a date of final action of April 2018 on its proposed amendments to existing EB-5 rules (see https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eA…&RIN=1615-AC07 ). The most notable change is increasing minimum investment amounts to $1.3 million for TEA based projects and $1.8 million for non-TEA based projects. The second significant change would be removing the power from the states […]
By Matt Gordon ©2021 According to the December Visa Bulletin (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2022/visa-bulletin-for-december-2021.html) Chinese and Vietnamese direct EB-5 investors should be very happy. The visa category is current. The termination of the Regional Center program removed an overwhelming majority of the case load from the USCIS backlog. Given the relatively small number of direct cases pending, the […]
By Matt Gordon ©2021 On August 23, 2021, the Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal in the Behring Case. They have not asked for a stay of the district court decision vacating the EB-5 rule increasing the minimum investment from $500K to $900K. This suggest a weak case from the outset. DHS thought […]
© 2021 Matt Gordon Paraphrasing Mark Twain, the reports of the demise of the EB-5 program have been greatly exaggerated. It is true that on as of July 1, 2021, the Regional Center (pilot) program, enacted in the Immigration Act of 1993, lapsed; however, the EB-5 program itself, which was created by the Immigration Act […]