Keep separate indexes for the project’s evidence and the investor’s lawful capital history, then show how the actual investment connects them.
Avoid using one file to answer both questions
A project report does not explain the applicant’s source of funds. A bank trail does not establish project jobs. Identify missing items in each and ask the appropriate record holder to provide them.
Start with the borrowing: provide the commitment letter and signed loan agreement, the bank's disbursement advice, statements showing the proceeds arrive in the investor's account, the currency-conversion receipt, and the transfer to the regional center's escrow or the new commercial enterprise. Everything that turns a completed business sale into a documented chain: the share purchase agreement, valuation, closing statement, corporate and shareholder records, personal and corporate tax filings, and then bank statements tracing the proceeds account by account into the enterprise. The subscription and partnership or operating agreement, which set out what the investor actually owns and what rights they hold, the offering materials describing the business and its risks, the escrow terms governing when money is released, and the job-creation methodology the project relies on.
- 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