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ELNORA · E-2 FIELD GUIDE

Should a planned expenditure be described as paid when funds are merely reserved?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. State the actual status of the money and supporting transaction. A reserve or budget is not a completed payment.

Make the commitment traceable

Identify genuine transfers, agreements and release conditions. Properly structured visa-contingent escrow may qualify, but the file should accurately describe its terms rather than call every planned purchase final.

Collect the relative's statements covering each disputed payment, the invoices and receipts they settled, a written declaration of the arrangement, evidence of the relative's own lawful source, and the investor's records showing reimbursement or the funds' origin. Entity and ownership records, asset titles and lien searches, the lease and its assignment terms, service contracts, three years of tax returns and payroll, and the seller's licence status and qualifier arrangement. Collect the draft lease with the guarantee text, the deposit and escrow instructions, proof of amounts already transferred, and records tracing lawful original source and the full path of the funds to the enterprise. Source of funds shows the money is lawfully the investor's: years of tax filings and financial statements for a professional practice, brokerage records for any liquidated investments, and statements for every account the money passed through.