Government filing charges are separate from company document preparation, legal fees, and family-related steps. A new-office business budget is a distinct category of spending entirely, not part of the immigration filing fee.
Pin down what the professional engagement actually covers
Ask directly whether a quote covers the eligibility assessment, petition drafting, any expedited-processing request, and responses to later government inquiries, or only some of those. Identify document retrieval, translation, and corporate work that may sit outside that scope. Confirm current official fees for this employer's specific filing rather than assuming a figure from an unrelated case still applies.
Divide the budget into eligibility review, corporate and employment evidence, government submissions, optional services, and household steps; for a new office, maintain a separate operating-capital ledger. Confirm current official charges without copying amounts from another employer, and define whether professional fees cover entity analysis, drafting, translations, later inquiries, extensions, or family filings. Eligibility still requires corporate qualification, the pertinent year abroad, and actual managerial or executive duties in America. The frequent mistake is treating launch spending as an immigration fee or assuming an expensive filing can repair missing facts.
Hypothetical example: a Windsor commercial-laundry group proposes transferring its regional director to an established U.S. subsidiary. Its controller prices share-register retrieval, payroll evidence, certified translations, petition work, and dependent preparation separately. She excludes replacement washers and a delivery van from the immigration subtotal, although they remain business expenses. Before approving counsel's scope, the company asks whether a later government inquiry is included and confirms that ownership records—not the quoted price—establish the qualifying relationship.