No. Identify each person’s actual relevant immigration event and records.
Track the individual timeline
A project closing date or another investor’s admission does not replace the applicable personal date.
A detailed, realistic plan: the concept, location and lease, the market, a staffing table naming each full-time position with hours and hiring dates, financial projections supporting that payroll, and the timeline for reaching ten jobs within the conditional period. Assembling a career-length financial record commonly takes several months before anything can be filed, and the overall process runs for years, including a two-year conditional residence period. Understand that a grant of conditional permanent residence starts a two-year period ending in Form I-829 to remove conditions, which requires evidence that the investment was sustained and the jobs created, so the file does not close when the family arrives. The frequent mistake is counting that removal window from the investment, petition, or sale date, or rushing filing to satisfy a private project deadline before lawful-source records are ready. Anchor the immigration side to the milestones the household can observe: the source-of-funds file complete, enterprise documents signed, the petition receipted, and movement in the relevant category and chargeability.
- USCIS — EB-5 investor program
- USCIS — business and investment visa overview
- USCIS — Child Status Protection Act
- Department of State — Visa Bulletin
- USCIS — fee schedule
- 8 USC 1153(b)(5) — investor capital and adjustment provisions
- USCIS — Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status