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MACKENZIE · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Which records explain policy participation in a professionally managed project?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Read the actual governing and investment agreements and relevant rights they provide. A project manager’s résumé does not establish the investor’s own participation.

Identify authority rather than promotional access

A promise to send updates or invite an investor to a tour is not necessarily the full governance arrangement. Explain the actual rights accurately without inventing daily managerial duties.

Start with the borrowing: provide the commitment letter and signed loan agreement, the bank's disbursement advice, statements showing the proceeds arrive in the investor's account, the currency-conversion receipt, and the transfer to the regional center's escrow or the new commercial enterprise. The record that works usually contains employment letters or contracts establishing the position and the period, pay records or annual statements, personal tax filings for the relevant years, and bank statements showing balances growing in a pattern consistent with the income. For a direct investment the capital evidence is the wire records into the company, the company’s bank statements showing the funds spent on the press, tanks, bottling line, lease improvements and working capital, purchase invoices, and financial statements for each year prepared by an accountant. The executed subscription and operating agreements with every amendment; receipts and transfer confirmations for each contribution, showing payer, payee and purpose; tax reporting issued to the investor; job-creation reports together with the methodology behind them; and correspondence recording what was requested and when.