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LA PRAIRIE · GOLD CARD FIELD GUIDE

Can my EB-5 business plan serve as a complete Gold Card application?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Follow the actual Gold Card requirements and individual review rather than assuming a project plan establishes EB-1 or EB-2 eligibility, admissibility and visa availability.

Reuse relevant facts without substituting the wrong test

Some genuine background records may remain relevant, but a job-creation projection is not a substitute for official Gold Card instructions. Keep the prior process identified accurately instead of merely changing the cover title. Sort the existing bundle into three piles: personal records that describe the applicant, project records that describe an enterprise, and marketing material that describes neither.

The first pile travels; the second rarely does; the third should not have been in the file at all. Identity documents, employment history, qualifications and the evidence of lawful funds usually keep their value because they are about the person. Hypothetical example: a pharmaceutical quality documentation manager who prepared an EB-5 file keeps the employment letters, the education records and the source-of-funds trail, and sets aside the market study and the job creation model, which describe a business the new route does not turn on.

Then read the official Gold Card instructions and list what is still missing, because that gap is what the work now consists of rather than what has already been assembled. Ask counsel which of the retained records will actually be used, since a document kept for reassurance still has to be consistent with everything else in the file.

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