Identify the actual proceeds and obligations rather than assuming the headline price equals the amount received and committed. The genuine source and path matter.
Use the real financial records
Keep investment capital distinguishable from other transaction and household expenses. A larger agreed sale price does not waive the qualifying capital threshold or at-risk requirements.
Government filing fees for the investor petition, the immigrant visa or adjustment process, and later the petition to remove conditions, all published officially; plus regional centre administrative fees where applicable, legal fees, and professional work on source-of-funds documentation. Money held in the investor's personal account against future expenses is not yet invested, and funds contributed but parked in the company's reserve with no business purpose invite the question whether they are actually at risk. Professional costs form a third line: U.S. immigration counsel, securities or corporate advice on the offering, an independent source-of-funds review, accountancy, certified translations, and any due diligence commissioned on the project. Escrow and administrative charges, subscription fees, legal work on the petition, translations of financial records spanning several countries, medical examinations, and the consular or adjustment steps for each family member all fall at different points. Investors regularly underestimate the second bucket, particularly where the source-of-funds work is complex, and they occasionally forget the third stage entirely because it arrives two years after everyone stopped thinking about the file.