Assembling a career-length financial record commonly takes several months before anything can be filed, and the overall process runs for years, including a two-year conditional residence period.
Start the paperwork before choosing the project
The most useful advice for someone in this position is to begin the documentary work immediately, because it is independent of which project is eventually chosen and it is the longest lead item. Retrieving twenty years of tax filings, obtaining statements from institutions that have merged or changed systems, and locating employment records from former employers all take weeks of waiting rather than hours of effort. Doing that first means that when a project is selected the petition can be prepared promptly. Adjudication times and visa availability then govern the rest and are published by the government rather than predictable in advance, so any fixed promise about duration should be treated as a warning sign about the person making it.
Hypothetical example: Tomas has a signed subscription package but expects the business’s first hires to occur in stages. His first review should create a calendar for capital deployment, job creation, immigrant-visa or adjustment steps, and the later conditions-removal filing. Payroll records, tax documents, and business-plan milestones will settle whether the employment result materialized. He must decide whether the proposed hiring schedule is realistic enough to preserve evidence throughout conditional residence. The error is treating petition approval as the final deadline and failing to maintain the records needed to prove that the required capital and job commitments continued to be met.