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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF ROCKWOOD · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Does a supplier finishing its contract establish the residence milestone?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

A supplier’s completion certificate can show commercial performance. It cannot establish when the investor became a conditional permanent resident.

Keep provider milestones with their own evidence

Ask what the certificate covers: construction, delivery, advisory work or another contractual service. Preserve it for the purpose it actually supports, without presenting it as an immigration notice. Conditional residence begins through the applicable immigrant admission or adjustment approval. Use that record for the usual I-829 filing window, the 90 days before the second anniversary, even if the supplier finishes much earlier or later. A provider’s statement that its work is complete neither removes immigration conditions nor determines whether the investor has met the relevant requirements.

Source-of-funds documentation, project due diligence, petition adjudication, visa availability, and consular or adjustment processing each take their own time, and none carries a guaranteed completion date. During the conditional period, gather evidence that the capital remained deployed as legally required and that the ten full-time qualifying jobs were created or will be created within the permitted framework.