No. Recruitment spending does not establish actual staffing or qualifying managerial duties.
Separate hiring costs from case costs
Clarify professional review, evidence preparation and current official charges. The relevant question is how the business will actually operate, not how much recruitment has cost.
Ask whether the quote covers an eligibility assessment, petition preparation, any expedited-processing request and responses to later government questions. Yes — keep the applicant's personal capital contribution as a shareholder separate from company operating costs, government filing fees, and family-related expenses. The immigration costs are the Form I-129 filing fee, the statutory fraud prevention and detection fee, and the premium-processing fee if a fifteen-business-day decision is wanted, each read from the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, at the time of filing. The costs that surprise companies are the U.S. entity’s own setup, premises, local payroll and the professional time spent reconstructing corporate records that were never tidy. The larger costs are usually professional fees, the U.S. premises secured before filing, and the accounting work required to document both entities. A lower operating budget does not establish who will perform the work or whether the U.S. role remains primarily managerial or executive.