A record obtained today can document an earlier distribution. Its value depends on authenticity, detail and corroboration, not just the date you received it. Explain any unavailable original, obtain the notarial or banking archive where possible and distinguish a certified copy from a newly written summary of events.
Sequencing the sale, the transfer and the filing
Order matters: allocation, sale, disbursement to you, then the investment. Being actively in the process of investing may qualify, so full payment is not universally required before filing, but escrow and release terms should be read first. Later stages follow — visa availability, an immigrant visa or a legitimate adjustment, conditional residence, then Form I-829 during the ninety-day period immediately before the second anniversary.
Do not promise that prior preparation, fees or dates transfer unchanged, or confuse a petition milestone with the start of conditional residence. Residence is conditional for two years, and Form I-829 must be prepared for its statutory filing window; request job-creation and sustainment evidence well before that window opens. The timeline runs from petition filing through adjudication, visa availability, consular processing and admission, then two years of conditional residence; the house is not needed to fund the capital and should not be sold to a project schedule.