US$1,050,000, or US$800,000 for a qualifying targeted employment area or infrastructure investment, with statutory adjustment provided for from 1 January 2027. The capital must be at risk, its source and path must be lawful and documented, and it must create at least ten full-time positions for qualifying American workers.
An amount, a purpose, and a count of jobs
Hypothetical example: Solveig wants to place capital in an American project after eleven years building and then selling out of a Quebec meal-preparation business. Four conditions travel together and a file usually fails on one of them rather than on the money. The amount is set by statute at the standard figure, with a reduced figure for a qualifying targeted employment area or infrastructure project, and with adjustment provided for from the start of 2027, so the filing date matters to the arithmetic.
The capital must be genuinely at risk, meaning exposed to loss, which rules out any guaranteed return of the principal however it is dressed. The source and the path of the funds must both be lawful and provable, which is a documentary exercise rather than a declaration. And ten full-time positions for qualifying workers must be created and attributable to that investor.
Solveig must also be engaged in management or policy formulation rather than holding a purely passive stake. Success produces conditional residence for two years, not unconditional status, and the conditions are removed on a later petition supported by evidence that the jobs exist.