No. Commercial consideration and official program obligations are different. The September 7, 2026 official processing fee is US$15,000 per person and nonrefundable; the principal gift is US$1,000,000 individually or US$2,000,000 per corporate-sponsored employee. Family and continuing corporate obligations are additional.
Identify the actual payment purposes
Use the applicable principal, family, maintenance and transfer terms. A transaction budget does not change what the official framework requires.
Gifts follow successful vetting and official instructions, and payment capacity does not settle EB-1 or EB-2 eligibility, admissibility or visa availability. Distinguish the amount instructed, the amount debited and the amount received, because in an international transfer these three figures are routinely different and only one of them satisfies anything. Local costs differ in practice — currency conversion, Canadian professional fees, travel — but those are your expenses, not different program pricing. The defining payment is made by the applicant to the U.S. government after the applicable process; it is not a recoverable enterprise investment and should not be compared to EB-5 capital as if it could generate a return.