Each principal’s case must meet its applicable capital requirement; a combined household total does not explain each qualifying contribution.
Reconcile the individual allocations
Separate actual investment from administrative charges and private costs. A project budget should show the real arrangement without counting one person’s funds twice. As checked September 7, 2026, capital generally is US$1,050,000, or US$800,000 for a qualifying targeted employment area or infrastructure case. Statutory adjustments begin January 1, 2027; confirm the filing-date amount.
An independent read of the economic analysis and budget is a small expense beside the capital at stake, and the sponsor's report was commissioned to support the offering rather than to advise a subscriber. Legal work divides in two: the petition itself, and the source-of-funds reconstruction, which in an estate case is the larger job because someone must assemble and explain a chain reaching back before the deceased's death. Government charges apply at several stages, including the initial petition, the immigrant visa or adjustment stage, and later the petition to remove conditions, and current amounts should be taken from the published fee schedule. What goes wrong is a schedule prepared for a lender or a partner being reused as immigration evidence without adjustment, because such documents are built to show total project activity rather than one investor's position.