Not necessarily. Immigrant visa availability is governed by category and country of chargeability under the statute, and the visa bulletin, not by the payment. Compare his existing priority date with the current bulletin before treating a payment as an acceleration.
Check the bulletin before assuming a shortcut
Compare the pending petition's category, priority date and country of chargeability with the current visa bulletin, then compare its procedural posture with the official Gold Card sequence of fee payment, vetting, gift request, EB-1 or EB-2 approval and visa availability. The published framework does not establish that every applicant avoids a labour-market step, eliminates an employer relationship, or gains a particular amount of time. The shop owner should keep the existing petition and business arrangements in place unless case-specific advice and official instructions support a change, and should not take irreversible steps merely because a payment receipt was issued.
Hypothetical example: a Hope musical-instrument restorer has a current employment-based priority date but an unresolved medical admissibility issue. The first review distinguishes visa-number availability from the separate steps that can still delay final processing. The visa bulletin answers the first question; medical documentation and the official framework instructions answer the second.
The decision is whether the proposed payment solves a real queue problem or whether the applicant should first resolve the outstanding evidence request. A payment receipt is not permission to abandon an existing petition, resign, or make an irreversible relocation commitment.