Filing does not itself remove conditions or create a universal repayment right.
Review the actual milestone
Read the investment terms and applicable capital requirements separately. An I-829 receipt is not a government instruction to return funds.
The process generally involves an investor petition, an immigrant visa or adjustment-of-status stage where available, and later removal of conditions tied to evidence that the required jobs were actually created (or, for a troubled business, preserved) and sustained. The immigrant investor classification extends to the investor's spouse and to unmarried children under twenty-one, who receive the same conditional permanent residence and are included in the later removal of conditions. The project's construction schedule, the petition's processing time, visa availability under the bulletin, and the eventual removal of conditions are four separate clocks controlled by different parties. The case sequence runs from petition filing through adjudication with no fixed decision date, visa availability in the relevant category, admission or adjustment, then the two-year conditional residence period, with the petition to remove conditions ordinarily filed in the ninety days before its second anniversary.
Do not infer that a favorable financial update settles removal of conditions, or that an unresolved reporting question automatically determines the immigration outcome. The condition deciding which queue applies deserves plain statement: chargeability generally follows country of birth, so Canadian residence or a Canadian passport does not by itself place you in a particular queue.