The sale must complete and the proceeds must be traceable before the capital can be invested and documented, so the sale generally leads. Verify the qualifying amounts current at the time of investment, since statutory adjustment begins on January 1, 2027.
Let the money land and be documented before it moves again
Sequencing failures here are expensive. Investing against expected proceeds, or from an account that has not yet received them, produces a path that cannot be traced cleanly, and reconstructing it afterwards is far harder than documenting it as it happens. Rosalind should close the bakery sale, receive the funds, retain the closing documents and bank records, and only then transfer capital into the investment.
Around that spine sit other dates worth mapping: the current qualifying amounts at the moment of investment, the project's own construction and job-creation schedule, any child approaching 21, and later the ninety-day window before the second anniversary of conditional residence in which Form I-829 is generally filed. Petition approval is not residence; the immigrant visa or adjustment process follows, subject to eligibility and visa availability.