Ask for line-item detail. The subscription agreement, escrow instructions and wire instructions should each show the capital contribution and the administrative fee as distinct figures that reconcile to the same total. Escrow release conditions deserve their own review, because they govern when the money moves and on what terms.
Reconciling three documents that disagree
In a hypothetical file, the partnership agreement recites an US$800,000 contribution, the fee schedule sets fees at US$65,000, and the escrow instruction refers to US$865,000 held pending an I-526E filing. Ask the issuer for a written reconciliation naming the exact amount credited to your capital account. Corporate records can bear on eligibility, and lawful source and path evidence covers the entire transferred sum.
The estate documents and the decedent's history take longest to gather; the transfers themselves are quick once the money is in hand. The administrative fee is not part of the at-risk invested capital even though it is often paid alongside it, so a document that lists only a single combined figure risks the qualifying investment amount being misstated. Lawful-source records still need to cover the entire sum actually transferred, fee included, even though only the capital-contribution portion is the amount counted toward the required investment. Ask the escrow agent for its own ledger or account statement showing the two amounts as they were actually received and held, rather than relying solely on the issuer's summary of what the agreement says should have happened.