E-2

English

Noun

E-2 (plural E-2s)

  1. (US) A visa granted to investors in United States businesses.
    • 2017 January 30, Sara Ashley O'Brien, “Trump's immigration reform: High-skilled visas may be next”, in CNN Business‎[1]:
      But there are many other programs mentioned in the draft that are important to the tech community. Programs like the J-1, for summer work travel, and the OPT, for international students to stay in the U.S. after graduating. Both were recently revised under the Obama administration. Also, the E-2 program, which is an investor visa, is subject to change.
  2. (military) A second-class private.
    • 2025 February 23, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Katie Bo Lillis, “How retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine became Trump’s pick for Joint Chiefs chairman”, in CNN‎[2]:
      “Our ability as a warfighting nation to pivot at speed, to stay ahead of these emerging technologies, is going to be really important in the future,” Caine said. “There’s a whole bunch of things that we need to do better as a joint force and as a Department of Defense along the lines of acquisition reform so that we can make sure that those young (privates first class) and E-1s and E-2s and (noncommissioned officers) have the kit and capability that they need.”

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