Request a dated explanation supported by the relevant underlying evidence and method.
Preserve the sequence of revisions
Keep earlier and later reports so a material change can be assessed rather than hidden. The needed evidence depends on the actual investment structure; not every case uses the same job-counting document.
Preserve every version of the job forecast so the change is auditable rather than erased. Request a dated memorandum naming the assumption that moved, who approved the revision, the affected phase, the recalculated job count, and its source data, and pair it with the earlier forecast, current payroll or economic-methodology evidence, construction records, and the investor-allocation table. Never discard the original estimate or quietly swap a table for a newer one. Which evidence controls still depends on the petition type: Form I-526E for a regional-center investment, Form I-526 for a direct one. None of this substitutes for the underlying case elements — ten qualifying full-time positions, a traceable lawful source and path for the invested capital, and the correct threshold, ordinarily US$1,050,000 but US$800,000 where the project genuinely qualifies as a targeted employment area or infrastructure investment. Form I-829 must be filed during the 90-day period immediately preceding the second anniversary of conditional residence. The recurring failure is presenting a new number without explaining why the earlier one no longer holds.
Hypothetical example: A Saint-Ambroise cold-storage business owner receives a revised project forecast after the construction schedule slips. She keeps both economic reports, a version-control memorandum, the updated expenditure assumptions, and the allocation table behind her regional-center case, so reviewers can see exactly which job inputs changed and which stayed the same rather than watching the earlier projection quietly vanish.