No. Explain the actual financial ability to pay the employee and begin doing business.
Separate past spending from available resources
A completed training expense is not automatically money available for U.S. payroll. Present genuine current financial evidence and the operational plan.
The Form I-129 filing fee and the statutory additional fees for L petitions in the current G-1055 fee schedule, optional premium processing, professional preparation, and the spouse's and children's admission costs. A replacement-cost estimate can help the business make its own decision, but it is not a substitute for specialized-knowledge evidence and is not a universal labour-market test. Government charges are separate and are published in the current USCIS fee schedule; amounts change, so figures quoted in older material should not be relied on. Split the budget into platform licences, ordinary business deployment, petition expenses, and evidence preparation; none measures specialized knowledge by price. Budget staff time, translation, technical explanation, professional review, and official charges as separate categories; confirm current government instructions rather than inserting a filing-fee figure.