The timeline combines preparation, investor-petition adjudication, visa availability and immigrant visa processing or an eligible adjustment process. These steps can move at different speeds. An application or petition approval alone should not be treated as authorization to move, work or travel; the relevant status and documents must be established.
Keep the residence timeline separate from the investment exit
Review the appropriate petition route and current Visa Bulletin with counsel, including chargeability rather than assuming Canadian residence removes a queue. After conditional residence begins, track the later removal-of-conditions filing, ordinarily during the 90 days before its second anniversary. The project’s commercial repayment schedule is a different issue.
Set planning milestones around verified case developments and retain a fallback for additional evidence requests, availability changes or delayed processing. Keep two timelines side by side and never merge them: one for immigration steps and one for the project's commercial schedule. They move independently, and treating a construction milestone as an immigration milestone is the mistake that leads households to give notice too early.
On the immigration timeline record only events that have actually happened, and keep expected dates in a separate column that can be revised without rewriting the history. Enter the removal-of-conditions filing in the diary as soon as conditional residence begins, since it falls within a defined window and is easy to lose sight of years later.