Only a genuine agreed arrangement should be described. Assess each actual transaction rather than merging incompatible terms.
Keep the investment coherent
Ownership, financing and business evidence must describe the same real proposal. A comparison can identify weaknesses without inventing a combined purchase.
Ask how the real commitment will be assessed rather than borrowing a figure from someone else's application — spending more money does not repair an unresolved nationality or operating-business problem. Confirm nationality requirements as well — the investor's citizenship, and at least fifty percent treaty-country ownership of the enterprise, are assessed on citizenship rather than Canadian residence. The investor still needs treaty nationality, a real operating enterprise, substantial capital committed and at risk, genuine control of the business, and an operation capable of more than a minimal living. A lawful software-resale business is not disqualified merely because it resells access; it must still meet the E-2 business, investment, nationality and develop-and-direct requirements. Develop-and-direct is about control rather than effort: a buyer who will work hard in the business but cannot appoint, price, or bind it stands in a weaker position than the payroll suggests.