We don’t hire to relocate people so I don’t have direct and current experience to speak to there. I’d be curious to know how much it’s happening given the shift

We don’t hire to relocate people so I don’t have direct and current experience to speak to there. I’d be curious to know how much it’s happening given the shift to more remote working over the past year. I’d agree in principle though that it requires a hot and supply constrained market. The process and costs for the employer are no joke and so it really makes the most sense when you’ve got few other options. My experience with the E3 specifically (I relocated on one a decade ago) is just the lack of knowledge about it. Employers are familiar with H1B but very few were familiar with an E3. I ended up having to time and time again say something like “I’m eligible for a visa that’s very similar to an H1B, but with a higher likelihood of unused allocation. So it should be easier”. Even post offer the legal and relocation team I was matched up with needed a lot of coaching and correction to handle an E3 despite being a specialist immigration firm. I’ve heard stories from others that were a lot less painful, mainly because they got to choose their own immigration lawyers who had specific E3 experience. I was joining a big company by that point and so had to go through the firm and process they were already on retainer with. YMMV.