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APPLICATION ANSWERS · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

St. John’s: Can the project reserve an immigration completion date after the sale?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

A commercial reservation does not establish government timing, visa availability or approval.

Keep the funding and immigration calendars distinct

Ask what the reservation actually promises. No investment schedule itself authorizes U.S. work or residence while the relevant outcome remains unresolved.

Hypothetical example: a specialty starch producer receives petition approval while the family is still waiting for the next residence step. Keep three timelines apart: assembling source records, petition adjudication and the later immigrant-visa or adjustment process. A petition approval notice establishes only one stage; it does not by itself grant entry or permanent residence.

Project records should also track when capital remains exposed and when job evidence will mature for condition removal. Families often make irreversible relocation choices after approval without accounting for visa availability or conditional-residence steps. The correct sequence is to confirm the next immigration action, preserve investment and job documentation, then plan the move.

Do not postpone the conditions case until records have become difficult to obtain. Assign responsibility for collecting project and employment evidence early, because condition-removal preparation depends on records created well before that filing stage.