Provide the relevant ownership, distribution and payment records, followed by the transfers into the proposed investment. Identify any intermediate accounts or currency conversions.
Keep each amount traceable
Explain material differences using the actual statements and terms. Mark missing records and identify their holders. The final balance is not the whole source-of-funds history. Coordinate the legal funding review with appropriate accounting information without changing historical figures to make the sequence look simpler.
Request the regional center's legal name and designation details, the project's offering documents, the escrow or subscription terms, the economic analysis behind the job projections, and disclosure of any litigation, enforcement action, or sponsor change. Demonstrating the path of funds is a banking exercise and fails on small things: a transfer through a relative's account made for convenience, a currency conversion at a private dealer, proceeds split across institutions and partly spent before being reassembled. Title records, the original purchase documents, the discharged mortgage, probate or transfer papers for the inherited portion, filed tax returns reporting the gain, the statement of adjustments and the bank trail from closing to the enterprise together answer both source and path.
- USCIS — EB-5 investor program
- USCIS — business and investment visa overview
- USCIS — Child Status Protection Act
- Department of State — Visa Bulletin
- USCIS — fee schedule
- U.S. Code — INA 203(b)(5), investment thresholds and adjustment
- USCIS EB-5 policy manual
- USCIS I-829
- 8 USC 1153 — permissible capital and jobs
- 8 CFR 204.6(e) — qualifying employees only