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PORT COLBORNE · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Does accepting a management title begin conditional residence?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Immigrant admission or adjustment approval begins conditional residence. Business appointments and petition approval are different events.

Use the actual anniversary

I-829 timing follows the individual residence record. Filing does not itself remove conditions or guarantee repayment.

The petition must show that the required capital has been contributed or is actively being contributed, which for a regional-center project usually means the funds sit in the project's escrow under terms that release them to the enterprise on filing or approval. Review the appropriate petition route and current Visa Bulletin with counsel, including chargeability rather than assuming Canadian residence removes a queue. Review any change in the project schedule or in family circumstances as it happens, and keep removal of conditions on the calendar as a later, distinct step rather than treating initial approval as the end of the process. What follows depends on visa availability for your chargeability and on whether adjustment is genuinely available to you; in some eligible EB-5 situations concurrent adjustment filing exists, so stages are not always strictly sequential. EB-5 requires qualifying capital placed at risk, the required job creation, and conditional permanent residence before later condition removal; an accountant’s report may support facts but cannot substitute for the underlying immigration evidence.