Describe the actual government event accurately. Conditional residence starts at immigrant admission or adjustment approval, not simply investment or petition filing.
Avoid compressing distinct stages into one label
Use the genuine decision and status records. The ordinary I-829 window is tied to the second anniversary of conditional residence, and filing itself neither removes conditions nor guarantees repayment.
The capital must satisfy the sustainment rule applicable to the petition, the enterprise must create the required jobs, the investor must remain engaged in management or policy formulation, and the family must maintain permanent residence rather than abandon it. If the closing tranche after tax and distribution meets the threshold for a targeted-employment-area project, the petition can be filed as soon as the path-of-funds evidence is assembled, which often takes longer than investors expect because early corporate records must be found. A closing deadline set by a promoter is a commercial device, not an immigration requirement, and hurrying the one stage an investor fully controls rarely improves anything, since petition adjudication, visa availability, and later stages carry no fixed dates.