Not by itself. Review actual qualifying capital, commitment and risk in relation to the enterprise.
Identify what the total includes
Separate financing, expenses and actual invested funds rather than assigning every line to qualifying capital. The enterprise and investor conditions remain relevant.
The enterprise must be at least fifty percent owned by nationals of the treaty country, and the investor must additionally develop and direct it, which ordinarily means majority ownership or demonstrated operational control. The marginality requirement asks whether an E-2 enterprise has, or has the present capacity to develop, the ability to generate income significantly beyond what is needed to support the investor and family. Test the route in an evidence order: treaty nationality, enterprise ownership and direction, lawful source and movement of funds, binding commercial risk, and nonmarginality. Ownership producing rent without meaningful business operations generally falls short, because the category looks for a real, active commercial enterprise rather than a passive holding. The nationality of the individuals who own the enterprise, traced through any intermediate companies, decides the question rather than the place of incorporation, and a treaty basis must be supported for the business as well as the applicant.