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A Clarence-Rockland buyer financing a cross-border terminal purchase through a combination of a vendor take-back note from the seller and a loan secured against family farmland involved in a succession plan needs to document each source's terms and lawful origin separately, since mixing them into a single 'purchase funds' figure obscures how the actual commitment is structured.
Document the vendor take-back note on its own terms
Obtain the note's principal, interest rate, repayment schedule, and any security interest the seller retains in the terminal, and explain how continuing seller involvement affects the buyer's actual ownership and control of the business.
Trace the farmland-secured loan separately
Identify which family member's land secures the loan, the lender's terms, and how the loan proceeds move from the lender to the investment, particularly if the farmland is jointly owned or part of an ongoing succession plan among relatives. Keep the loan documentation distinct from the vendor note.
Explain the terminal's own commercial operation
Describe the terminal's actual customers, throughput and staffing plans, and its supported financial expectations, keeping this operating account separate from the financing structure. Non-marginality depends on the business's own prospects, not on how creatively the purchase was financed. The investor needs relevant treaty nationality and development-and-direction authority, with at least 50% relevant national enterprise ownership, substantial lawful capital committed at risk and intent to depart when E status ends. There is no universal E-2 minimum; enterprise-asset-secured borrowing does not qualify on that basis.
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Is there one minimum investment that guarantees E-2 eligibility?Is holding money or owning an asset enough for E-2?Editorial source review: 2026-09-07. General preparation guidance, not an individual assessment.