The usual I-829 window is tied to conditional residence, not the expected inheritance payment date.
Maintain distinct funding and residence calendars
Assess the actual stage of investment preparation and applicable requirements. A delayed distribution should not be treated as an automatic change to an existing immigration deadline.
Approval leads to two years of conditional permanent residence, and removing the conditions requires a further petition on Form I-829, ordinarily filed within the ninety days before the second anniversary of conditional admission, showing the capital remained invested and the jobs were created. Conditional residence generally lasts two years, followed by a timely petition to remove conditions with evidence that the required capital and job-creation conditions were met or are being met as the statute permits. An investor should therefore ask the sponsor for the expected job-creation timeline stated against that window, in writing, before committing, and should treat vague answers as information in themselves. Run the stress test on the assumption that the enterprise distributes nothing throughout the conditional period and that removing conditions takes longer than expected, since both are ordinary outcomes rather than pessimistic ones. Most importantly, conditional residence begins upon the relevant admission or adjustment, not when the investor first wires funds or files a petition; Form I-829 must be filed within the 90-day period immediately preceding the second anniversary of obtaining conditional permanent resident status.