No. Filing the investor petition alone supplies no work authorization. Any work before becoming a permanent resident must be permitted by the person’s existing status or another valid authorization.
Review actual activities before starting
Describe the tasks, location and proposed start date to counsel, along with current status and employment documents. Ownership or funding of a business does not itself answer whether the investor may perform operational work. If adjustment or another application is contemplated, assess eligibility and any separate work authorization requirements.
Do not begin work based only on an expectation that residence will later be approved. Describe the intended activity in operational terms before asking whether it is permitted, because the answer turns on what will actually be done rather than on the role name. Set out the tasks, the location, the hours and the proposed start date, together with the current status and employment documents, and put those to counsel as a single question.
Ownership or funding of a business does not answer whether the investor may perform operational work in it, and the two are routinely conflated by people who assume a proprietor is free to act. Where adjustment or another application is contemplated, assess eligibility and any separate work-authorization requirement in its own right. Never begin work on the expectation that residence will later be approved.