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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF MACDONALD · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Does the project’s construction completion set the date residence begins?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. The immigration process has its own requirements and stages.

Identify the government event

Conditional residence begins through applicable immigrant admission or adjustment approval, not simply construction completion. Track visa availability, adjudication and later removal-of-conditions requirements independently.

List construction or business milestones next to the immigration steps without treating the two as interchangeable, and check current official processing information and the Visa Bulletin directly. The I-829 must be filed within the ninety days before the second anniversary; a petition filed before the window opens is rejected and one filed after the anniversary terminates conditional residence unless USCIS accepts a showing of good cause. Plan school years, housing and reserves with contingencies for delayed or reduced repayment, while separately assessing any effect of project events on the immigration case. Preserve both the factual update and the underlying explanation; filing I-829 itself neither removes conditions automatically nor obligates the project to repay capital. A first review should produce a source-and-path chronology, a financing diagram, a project document list, and a calendar that separates investment events from immigration milestones.