Track the actual capital contribution without counting the same money repeatedly as it moves.
Reconcile movements with contributed value
General capital is US$1,050,000 or US$800,000 for qualifying TEA or infrastructure investment, subject to statutory adjustment from January 1, 2027 and actual filing-date rules. Transfer activity is not itself additional capital; identify separately any fees and their actual treatment.
Reconcile the contribution by economic value, not by the number of wires. Create a running balance that marks transfers between the investor’s own accounts as movements of existing money and counts capital only when actually contributed under the investment documents. Keep administrative, legal, currency, and filing expenses separate unless the governing arrangement clearly treats an amount as qualifying capital. The statutory investment level is generally US$1,050,000, reduced to US$800,000 for a targeted employment area or infrastructure project, subject to filing-date law. Ten full-time qualifying U.S. jobs remain required. Direct cases use Form I-526; regional-center cases use I-526E. Successful applicants receive conditional residence and must file Form I-829 during the 90-day period immediately preceding its second anniversary to remove conditions. Double-counting recycled savings is the central trap.
Hypothetical example: An agronomist near Saint-Charles-de-Bourget moves the same savings from a term deposit to chequing, converts them to U.S. dollars, and sends two instalments to the enterprise. Her spreadsheet links opening and closing balances so those four movements are not added together. She separately labels the currency-provider charge and investment administration fee. The evidence demonstrates the amount genuinely contributed while preserving a transparent lawful-source trail.