Payroll records and tax filings for the U.S. enterprise, offer letters stating at least thirty-five hours per week, and a business plan and hiring schedule that name the positions. Contracts with owner-operator drivers show the opposite and should not be presented as job creation.
Job creation is proven on payroll, not on contracts
The petition stage relies on a credible business plan showing that at least ten full-time positions for qualifying U.S. workers will exist within the required period; the removal-of-conditions stage relies on proof they do. For a cross-dock warehouse the plan should list each position, its hours, its wage and the month it is filled: dock supervisors, forklift operators, a dispatcher, a maintenance technician, an office administrator and the general manager.
At the I-829 stage the evidence is the U.S. company's quarterly payroll tax filings, employee wage statements and Forms I-9 for each worker. Owner-operators who haul freight under carrier agreements are independent businesses; their contracts prove revenue, not employment, and listing them as jobs invites denial.
The investor, his spouse and children are excluded from the count even if they draw salaries. Two part-time positions can be combined to equal one full-time job only in the specific way the regulations allow, so the plan should aim for ten genuine full-time roles.