An announcement does not establish the qualifying relationship, actual business history or permission to work. Coordinate timing with the reviewed structure and applicable process.
Use effective facts rather than announced labels
Identify what arrangements exist, when operations begin and what the applicant would actually do. Resolve material relationship or role questions before relying on a planned opening date. Build the schedule backwards from the evidence rather than forwards from the announcement.
A request cannot sensibly be made until the entity exists, the premises question is answered, and the applicant's qualifying foreign employment can be documented, so those are the dates that govern. Hypothetical example: a sports-field construction firm announces an opening for the start of the growing season and books crews accordingly. The announcement fixes nothing about the immigration timetable; it fixes a commercial commitment that may have to be met by other people.
Ask what happens to those crews and contracts if the applicant is not admitted by that date, and write the answer down. Where an operation has been doing business for less than a year, the new-office framework applies and initial approval under it is limited to one year, which is a planning fact worth knowing before commitments are made rather than after. No processing time is guaranteed.
Diarise the first anniversary of the entity doing business, since which framework applies can change on that date and a plan written around the earlier one will stop fitting.