Document the actual new positions and apply the relevant job-creation and timing rules.
Use actual hiring rather than a retrospective estimate
A later plan does not prove earlier jobs existed. Track the genuine changes and preserve the actual conditional-residence anniversary and I-829 window rather than assume a staffing revision resets the immigration calendar.
Create a dated hiring record showing when each full-time position begins, who fills it, and which evidence supports it. Replacing overtime with later employees may improve the job plan, but it does not retroactively create roles. Apply the job-creation timing rules for the direct or regional-center structure and keep the conditional-residence timeline separate. Prove US$1,050,000 in capital, unless targeted-area or infrastructure-project eligibility permits the US$800,000 level, and trace its lawful source and route. A direct investor petitions on I-526; the regional-center route requires I-526E. Ten qualifying jobs and management or policy involvement remain required. Immigrant admission or adjustment starts conditional residence, with Form I-829 filed during the 90 days immediately before the second anniversary to seek removal of conditions. Status may also extend derivatively to a spouse and qualifying unmarried children below 21.
Hypothetical example: A commercial-greenhouse project reviewed near Petit-Saguenay initially covers demand through overtime, then schedules additional growers and shipping staff. The investor keeps offer letters, start dates, weekly schedules, and payroll rather than backdating positions. Counsel maps those hires to the project’s job methodology and residence milestones. If recruitment changes again, records and forecasts are updated; nobody assumes that a staffing revision restarts the conditional clock or repairs an earlier unsupported claim.