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 […]
The RIA’s automatic inflation adjustment hits January 1. Here’s what the numbers actually say. Matthew Gordon, Esq. | E3 Legal Advisors PLLC | April 2026 And you thought filling up your car was getting expensive. When Congress passed the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act in March 2022, it did something the program had never had […]
By Matt Gordon, Esq. | April 8, 2026 The DOL’s proposed prevailing wage rule is one to watch. The full rule is now published in the Federal Register and the numbers are striking. If finalized, entry-level H-1B salary floors would jump by more than 30% as estimated by many practitioners. This is a further disruption […]
The new “inventory management” announcement formalized what has been happening for years. Here is what it actually says — and what it does not.
If we call an apple a banana, can we regulate apples under rules that only govern bananas? No it’s not a bad joke from 2nd grade, it seems to be what is going on with the Trump Gold Visa! The I-140G just came out (is G for Gold or Gaudy?) and it raises several questions […]
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 […]