Explain the actual qualifying enterprise and capital arrangement. A partner’s resources do not remove the need to identify lawful committed funds and the principal’s governing conditions.
Avoid an unexplained combined total
Trace contributions and obligations accurately. Separate fees, financing and unrestricted reserves from capital claimed as qualifying investment.
Establish the total cost of acquiring this shop or building an equivalent one: purchase price, lifts and diagnostic equipment, tire inventory, tooling, the lease deposit and the working capital needed before receipts arrive. Keep professional fees and any government charges recorded separately from that capital, confirm official fees at the point each step is taken, and avoid transactions undertaken solely to reach a number someone quoted. Immigration-preparation costs are generally not the same thing as capital invested in the enterprise, but the treatment of a given expense depends on the facts and should be reviewed rather than assumed either way. Substantiality is measured against the actual cost of the specific business, and there is no fixed dollar figure that substitutes for that analysis; distinguish money still under discussion from money committed under signed terms and from amounts already spent.