It makes the document’s content accessible; the actual source and path still require substantive evidence.
Assess the underlying transaction
Do not treat a translation certificate as verification of every financial fact. Explain how the record supports lawful ownership, receipt and investment.
The capital must be invested and remain at risk in a qualifying commercial enterprise, its lawful source and path must be documented, and at least ten qualifying full-time jobs must be created, with permitted counting methods differing between standalone and regional centre structures. A lender’s decision addresses financing, while EB-5 separately requires lawful source and path, capital actually placed at risk, investor engagement in management or policy formulation, and job creation. A thoroughly documented personal funding history does not substitute for the project's own job-creation evidence, and an impressive project presentation does not substitute for the investor's lawful-capital documentation. The plan must show that at least ten such positions, filled by U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents or other immigrants lawfully authorized to work, will be created within the period allowed after the investment. Lawfully obtained loan proceeds contributed as cash do not have to be secured by the investor's own assets under current USCIS policy, but their lawful source, path, terms and use must be documented.