Not at approval of the investor petition. The investor must satisfy the current sustainment and job-creation rules and prove compliance with the required evidence at the Form I-829 stage, but the draft should not state that every job and payroll obligation necessarily continues until USCIS decides the I-829.
The finish line is removal of conditions, not the first approval
Investors commonly treat approval of the investor petition as the end of the immigration project, and it is not. Approval leads to conditional permanent residence for two years for the investor and his derivatives. During that period the capital must be sustained at risk in accordance with the rules in force, which changed with the 2022 Reform and Integrity Act and should be read from the official guidance rather than from memory, and the jobs allocated to him must be created and, where the rules require, maintained.
The petition to remove conditions is filed in the ninety days before the two-year period ends and is decided on evidence about the mill: quarterly payroll filings, employee lists with hours, financial statements and tax returns. That means the enterprise's record-keeping is his immigration file, and a project that runs lean by using contractors rather than employees can fail the test while trading profitably. The allocation agreement and the payroll system should be set up on day one to produce that evidence.