That sequencing is a legal question, not a management preference, and it should be settled with counsel before leases or offers are signed. What is certain is that the process runs from petition to visa availability to conditional residence and eventually removal of conditions, with no fixed decision date at any stage. Build the hiring schedule to survive delay.
Make the launch plan delay-tolerant
Write two versions of the operating timetable: one where the immigration steps move briskly, one where they take considerably longer. Check whether the lease term, equipment financing, and any franchise or supplier commitment survive the slower version. Where a contract has a hard start date, ask whether it can be renegotiated before signing rather than after.
The enterprise should be able to trade and employ people regardless of when a government decision arrives. Write two versions of the operating timetable, one where the immigration steps move briskly and one where they take considerably longer, then check whether the lease term, equipment financing, and any franchise or supplier commitment survive the slower version. Where a contract carries a hard start date, ask whether it can be renegotiated before signing rather than afterwards.
The sequencing of hiring relative to filing is a legal question rather than a management preference and should be settled with counsel before leases or offers are signed. What is certain is that the process runs from petition to visa availability to conditional residence and eventually removal of conditions, with no fixed decision date at any stage.