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Hypothetical example: a Lake Country building contractor who has grown a residential framing and finishing company over twenty years wants to open a small modular-housing assembly plant in Arizona, invest his own money directly, employ at least ten workers and eventually move his family there. He has no interest in a regional-centre fund; he wants to run the plant. A direct EB-5 investment is possible on those terms, but the standard capital threshold applies unless the plant is located in a targeted employment area, the ten jobs must be full-time positions for qualifying US workers created by his new commercial enterprise, and every dollar must be traced to a lawful source and along a lawful path. His engagement in managing the plant is a requirement, not merely a preference. The family's ages, especially any child near 21, also belong in the plan. The initial review should convert the project into a dated capital-and-hiring plan: identify the money's lawful origin, the transfer records, the roles that will be full time, and the person responsible for policy decisions. Capital must be exposed to loss for the immigration purpose; a guaranteed redemption or return conflicts with that requirement. The investor should not treat conditional residence as the end of the analysis, because the later petition tests whether the investment was sustained and the required employment was created.