Identify genuine evidence of goods or services provided, the operating entity and relevant dates. Explain the new location separately from earlier business operations.
Use business records in context
Have appropriate records selected for the actual issue under review. A certificate of incorporation may establish formation, but it does not by itself explain ongoing business activity or the managerial role the applicant would perform.
A new subsidiary has no operating history, so its activity is shown through the signed lease, the first client letters of intent, bank deposits and the business plan.
The petition should carry the share purchase agreement, the post-closing ownership chart, the U.S. entity's registration and evidence that it is trading. A short timeline listing the formation date, the first hire, the first invoice or client engagement and any significant gap between them lets an officer see a trajectory rather than a single snapshot. Bank statements covering several consecutive periods carry more weight than one deposit shown in isolation, since a pattern is harder to stage than an isolated transaction. Where a company was incorporated well before it began operating, explain the gap rather than leaving it for an officer to guess whether the entity was dormant, delayed or never actually active during that interval. Listing which of these records are original, certified or notarized, and which are internal summaries prepared for the filing, helps an officer weigh each one appropriately rather than treating a prepared chart as equal to an independently issued record.