Plan on the basis that nothing comes back. A donation has no repayment mechanism and an administrative charge is used up in administering. Because there is no unwinding, the entire examination has to be finished beforehand, including advice from an accountant and a name-by-name check of who is listed.
All the difficult work sits in front of the transfer
A proprietor accustomed to conditional offers, holdbacks and price adjustments will find no equivalent lever here. The investor route treats the money as capital: exposed to loss, certainly, but capital nonetheless, which is why so much of that process concerns proving where it came from and keeping it in place. This route treats the money as a donation with an administrative charge attached, and there is no route back if the household's circumstances shift, if plans change, or if somebody read the terms wrongly.
Everything consequential therefore has to happen first. Write down the result actually being sought. Go through the family one name at a time and confirm who is listed.
Get cross-border accounting advice covering residence and the ownership of a Canadian hospitality group. Then look at the published wording again on the morning the transfer is due. Anyone urging haste is giving a reason to wait.
Hypothetical example: an agricultural-drone company founder considers making the payment while her funds are partly held in a corporation. The first review confirms the official amount and recipient, maps the applicant's own lawful access to the money, and lists separate filing, translation, travel, and professional costs. Official programme materials settle the payment mechanics; personal bank records settle the funds path.
She should resolve whether money can lawfully be transferred to her before any payment is attempted. The error is to call the gift payment a business investment or corporate operating expense, when the framework contemplates a payment by the applicant.