Use the genuine agreement, payment records and actual conditions. Label quotes and unresolved purchases accurately.
Keep the stage visible
Do not present an estimate as an executed commitment.
Formation documents and the current ownership ledger, three years of financial statements and tax returns, payroll registers and an employee list, equipment schedules and customer contracts, and a draft purchase and shareholder agreement that a lawyer can test against the treaty requirements. Bring corporate formation and ownership documents, the management agreement, and bank and transfer records tracing funds from their lawful origin to the enterprise, along with contracts, leases or licences already signed. Build a dated transaction map covering every agreement, amendment, payment, delivery, escrow release, ownership transfer, and unsatisfied condition, and place a supporting bank record, invoice, registry entry, or closing document beside each one. Gather sale, inheritance or acquisition records, closing statements, bank transfers, currency conversions, escrow terms, formation papers, capitalization, ownership, contracts, premises, purchases, and a credible operating plan. Where a purchase is conditional on the visa, an escrow is normal, and its terms are then part of the evidence: money returnable at the buyer's option is not committed, whereas an escrow releasable on approval with the deposit otherwise irrevocable is a different instrument.