An E-2 Application Is a Documentation Problem Before It Is a Legal One.
The investment has to be real, at risk, substantial for the business in question, and traceable from its origin to the operating account. Every one of those words is an accounting question — and each one has to survive review by someone who has never met you.
Where these applications actually fail
- Funds arrive from a country whose banking documentation looks unfamiliar to a US reviewer
- The money passes through personal accounts, a relative, or a currency conversion, and the chain breaks
- The investment is real but the paper trail proving it is incomplete
- Business projections are optimistic without a stated basis behind the numbers
- The financial narrative in the petition does not match the underlying records
Documents in Russian, explanations in Russian
Where source documents are in Russian, the conversation about what they show does not need a translator in the middle of it. That shortens the work and reduces the chance of something being lost between languages.
What the accounting work covers
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Source-of-funds tracing
Documenting the lawful origin of invested capital and every step it took to reach the business — including transfers between accounts, jurisdictions, and currencies.
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Investment substantiation
Organizing evidence that funds are committed and irrevocably at risk, rather than sitting in reserve or subject to return.
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Business financial statements
Statements prepared to a standard a government reviewer will accept, consistent with the tax filings and bank records behind them.
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Financial projections
Forward-looking figures with stated assumptions, so the numbers can be examined rather than simply asserted.
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Ongoing compliance after approval
The bookkeeping, payroll, and tax work that keeps the business consistent with what the petition described — which matters at renewal.
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Coordination with immigration counsel
Your attorney owns the legal strategy. Vladimir supplies the financial record it rests on, in the form and detail counsel needs.
Vladimir Raskin CPA PS provides accounting and financial documentation services only. This is not legal or immigration advice, and no visa outcome is promised or implied. E-2 petitions should be filed with a licensed immigration attorney; Vladimir works alongside your counsel.
Working on an E-2 filing?
Bring your attorney's document list. The earlier the financial record is built, the cleaner the tracing.
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