The e-2 visa minimum investment requirement can be a real puzzle for many investors because US immigration law doesn’t spell out a specific dollar amount. To be clear, there is no official fixed minimum investment or minimum investment amount required by law, but your investment needs to be substantial and tick all the right boxes for your business type.
But that doesn’t mean you can just chuck in a paltry sum and expect approval. Most […]
The Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule late last week that would significantly change the methodology for determining prevailing wage levels.
The proposed rule would affect H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 and PERM filings, and would raise the prevailing wages associated with these programs.
It is important to note that the proposed rule will not take effect as published this week. The rule is subject to a 60-day comment period following its publication in the Federal Register on March […]
On March 27, 2026, the U.S. Deptartment of Labor (DOL) published its long-awaited proposed rule to increase prevailing wages (“OEWS”), available on its Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) website, advancing significant changes to how such prevailing wages are calculated. This rule, if adopted, will significantly raise the wage requirement for key sponsorship programs, including for such high-demand non-immigrant workers as H-1B professionals (and related E-3/H-1B1 treaty-based professionals1), and for many employment-based immigrant workers (sponsored […]