An operator replacement does not automatically terminate conditional residence. Review what changed, whether the investment and job requirements remain satisfied, and which rules apply at this stage of the case. The sustainment analysis depends on the applicable law and case dates rather than an assumption that every investor has the same period. A project assurance is not an agency decision.
How the substitution is analysed on your record
The analysis compares what was described in the approved I-526 or I-526E with what the enterprise now does, who employs the workers, and where the capital sits. A regional center designation is not an endorsement of the investment and does not resolve this question. Where the documents and the project's statements disagree, the disagreement itself is a fact counsel needs, not something to smooth over.
Hypothetical example: the enterprise is a laboratory automation integration company, and the replacement operator keeps the same premises, the same contracts and most of the same staff. Continuity of that kind is helpful evidence, but it is evidence rather than an answer, and it does not by itself establish that the capital remains at risk in the enterprise described in the approved petition. Build the comparison line by line: the business as approved, the business as it now operates, and the document that shows each difference.
Where no document shows a difference, record that finding too.