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DELSON · EB-5 FIELD GUIDE

Can I set a moving date from a visa chart before chargeability is resolved?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Treat that date as provisional. Confirm the correct chargeability, category and current availability, as well as the remaining application and admissibility steps.

Recheck the inputs when circumstances change

No chart alone promises issuance or admission. Preserve the basis for the analysis and review a material family change before relying on the same exception; investment funding and immigration scheduling remain separate decisions. Ask which of the plan's dates would have to move if the chargeability answer came back differently, and mark those dates as provisional in whatever document the family is actually using.

That is more useful than a general caution, because it names the commitments at risk: a lease, a school registration, the sale of a home, a resignation. Two further points belong on the same calendar. An approved petition is not residence, and the steps between the two carry their own requirements and their own duration.

And a change in the family's circumstances can change the analysis a chargeability exception rests on, so a material change should trigger a fresh look rather than being absorbed quietly into an existing plan. Keep funding decisions on a separate track from all of this. Capital committed on a schedule set by a visa chart has been committed for the wrong reason, and the chart is not a commitment anyone has made to the applicant.