Do not assume that result. Establish ownership, authority and restrictions under the actual arrangement before proposing an investment. A family relationship does not erase another person’s rights.
Separate funding authority from derivative eligibility
Identify the proposed principal investor and independently assess eligible family members, including individual admissibility and any child-age protection. Payment itself does not confer residence. For immigrant-visa admission, derivatives generally enter with or after the principal. Do not use a child’s possible derivative eligibility as a reason to assume the parent may redirect money legally belonging to that child.
The first review should separate each dependent’s relationship and plans from the principal case. Hypothetical example: a museum-conservation investor planning for a twenty-year-old child must decide which document or sequence actually resolves the issue before relying on a desired outcome. A complete record should show the fact, its source, and what remains prospective. EB-5 requires qualifying capital at risk, the applicable investment and job requirements, and conditional residence only after the relevant immigration process. Review the evidence in that order, then decide whether to proceed, obtain a missing record, or change the plan. A generic letter, private payment, future chart, or travel reservation fails when it is used to prove a condition it does not establish.
The review outcome should identify the next document or action and state why an unsupported shortcut would fail. Keep the final presentation tied to the facts actually established, not to a hoped-for conclusion.
Record that decision in writing before relying on it.