Do not treat the initial fee as proof of permanent residence or authority for the intended move. Further review and immigration steps remain.
Confirm the legal milestone
Ask counsel which actual status and documents your circumstances require before relocating. The official process includes eligibility, vetting and further adjudication. A payment confirmation proves a financial event, not completion of all those conditions, and this guide does not suggest another entry category as a workaround.
Trouble here takes three shapes, and each has a different remedy. The first is treating the payment as the decision; it is not, because eligibility, vetting and adjudication follow it and can reach a different conclusion. The second is treating the gift as an investment; the programme describes a gift paid by the applicant to the Department of Commerce, deposited in a separate Treasury fund, not capital placed at risk in a business and not a payment made by the government to the applicant.
The third is assuming the terms read months ago still hold; they should be re-verified from official sources before any money moves. Hypothetical example: a family that sold a precast concrete products yard plans the whole relocation around a summary printed at the start of the year. Ask counsel to confirm the current programme terms in writing, and date that confirmation, so the plan rests on something you can point to later.