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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF EAST ST. PAUL · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Can the investor use the construction timeline as the residence timeline?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Government decisions and the applicable residence process remain separate.

Keep later conditions in the plan

An initial petition does not itself grant residence, and conditional residence requires a later condition-removal step. A commercial handoff cannot replace those stages.

An investor should therefore ask the sponsor for the expected job-creation timeline stated against that window, in writing, before committing, and should treat vague answers as information in themselves. Conditional residence begins on immigrant admission or adjustment approval and starts its own I-829 clock; an executor’s final statement does not begin or complete that obligation. The third stage begins on admission as conditional residents: the two-year conditional period, followed by Form I-829 filed in the ninety-day window before the second anniversary, and its own adjudication, during which residence continues by operation of law.