A valid travel document and permission for the proposed work are different requirements.
Confirm the actual immigration stage before travel
A pending Gold Card application or document renewal does not itself authorize employment. Review actual admission or adjustment and any travel conditions rather than tie the work start to the passport delivery date.
Use the government case stage—not passport delivery—as the travel and employment checkpoint. A valid booklet permits a person to seek travel, but a pending Gold Card matter does not itself authorize US admission or productive work. Presently, the process starts through the online application with its nonrefundable US$15,000 DHS processing fee. The next USCIS prompt concerns filing I-140G as the programme’s immigrant petition. The route operates through EB-1 or EB-2 classification, with admissibility and availability still relevant. After vetting, officials may request the programme’s US$1 million contribution, structured as a gift to the United States; this payment is not EB-5 capital. Confirm current official instructions before payment or travel.
Hypothetical example: A renewable-energy entrepreneur from Saint-David-de-Falardeau receives a new passport while I-140G preparation remains incomplete and schedules meetings where she would direct operations. She should postpone productive duties until she has the appropriate immigration status and verify any separate travel requirements. Passport issuance does not advance vetting, trigger the gift request, or convert the pending programme case into employment permission.