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E-2 is a treaty-investor classification for an applicant with the nationality of a qualifying treaty country, including Canada. The investor must place a substantial investment into a genuine US enterprise, with funds committed in a way that exposes them to ordinary commercial loss rather than leaving them safely revocable. The investment is judged in relation to the cost of buying or creating the business; there is no one published amount that answers every case. The enterprise must be more than a marginal way to support only the investor and household, and the investor must be positioned to develop and direct it. Source, transfer, and deployment of the funds need a traceable record. A business plan can explain forecasts, but paid invoices, agreements, premises, and operating evidence often explain what has actually happened. E-2 offers no direct path to permanent residence, so families should not treat it as one. Business materials should tell one commercial story. A lease, purchase agreement, supplier invoice, payroll plan, customer pipeline, and financial forecast need not be perfect, yet unexplained contradictions can undermine the proposition that the enterprise is real and ready to operate. Show the investor’s practical authority in the governing documents and explain how the investor will make key decisions. If funds are held in escrow or subject to a contingency, describe precisely when they are released and what risk the investor bears. Nonmarginality is forward-looking as well as present-focused, so explain credible growth, employment, revenue, and household-support assumptions rather than offering a bare statement that the business will expand. Retain accounting records after approval because later renewals may examine how the enterprise actually developed. Before submission, compare the personal financial narrative with the bank trail and the commercial narrative with the business records. Each major amount should have a source, movement, recipient, and purpose. Each forecast should state its assumptions. A decision-maker can then see a real enterprise and a real investor role instead of a collection of optimistic labels. The final package should be internally consistent, complete enough for the selected procedure, and limited to facts the records can genuinely support. If an essential premise changes, revisit the route before relying on an earlier assessment. Keep the controlling evidence available for any later government question or extension review.