IN THIS GUIDE · Counting ten direct jobs: what a L'Ancienne-Lorette dentist must prove in a standalone EB-5 enterprise
Start with the EB-5 eligibility and application overview
Build the staffing plan as evidence, not as marketing
Ten full-time positions for qualifying U.S. workers means ten jobs of at least thirty-five hours per week, filled by U.S. citizens, permanent residents or others authorized to work, not counting the investor or her family. For a dental clinic that is hygienists, assistants, front-desk and billing staff and perhaps an associate dentist. The business plan must show when each position is hired, at what wage, and how the clinic's patient volume supports it, with assumptions a reviewer can test.
Trace the practice-sale proceeds
The sale of a Québec dental practice typically involves a purchase agreement, a professional-corporation share sale or asset sale, a lawyer's trust account, and tax withholdings. Every step from the sale to the U.S. clinic's bank account needs a document, including currency conversion, and the tax return for the year of sale backs up the whole chain. A final balance proves the money exists, not where it came from.
Separate her clinical licence from her investor role
Whether she may practise dentistry in the chosen state is a licensing question with its own examinations and timelines, entirely outside EB-5. The immigration file needs her to manage or set policy for the enterprise, which as sole owner she plainly does. But a clinic whose only dentist cannot yet be licensed has a revenue problem that undermines the job-creation plan, so the licensing timeline belongs in the business plan.
Plan the two-year conditional period from the outset
On admission the family holds conditional permanent residence for two years. The removal-of-conditions petition must show the ten jobs were created or will be created within a reasonable time, from payroll records. Hiring that slips because construction or licensing was late is the common failure, so the plan should hold a buffer and the clinic should keep quarterly payroll returns from the first hire.
Conditional residence, and the petition that ends it
The subscription creates rights and obligations between investor and issuer — capital call mechanics, a distribution waterfall, transfer restrictions, reporting undertakings — and the offering documents govern all of it. Keep one dated list of events with their sources, because the two calendars merge by accident easily: subscription signed, funds transferred, petition filed, petition approved, admission or adjustment, conditional residence beginning, and the filing window before its second anniversary. Investors must also be engaged in the management or policy formulation of the enterprise, which a limited partnership interest carrying the rights ordinarily accorded to limited partners can satisfy.
Sources reviewed 2026-09-07. This guide covers a preparation focus; it is not an individual eligibility assessment.