Fee requirements follow the actual filing and applicable official rules, not the number of entities shown in an explanatory chart.
Budget for the process actually selected
Identify the petitioner, required filings, professional scope and family steps. Verify current official charges and distinguish them from internal cost allocations among group companies. Corporate reimbursement arrangements do not determine government requirements. Do not add speculative fees for every reporting entity or assume one budget covers separate individual processes.
Hypothetical example: A precision-parts group allocates one transfer budget across a foreign parent, a U.S. affiliate, the principal, and two dependents without identifying which entity must make each filing payment. Build a cost ledger that names the payer, payee, purpose, payment date, and refundability. The first review should separate current official filing charges, legal services, translations, travel, and internal reimbursement. Corporate accounting entries do not determine immigration obligations. Ask the petitioner and the family members to confirm which steps are included in the engagement, especially where a new office or separate dependent application is contemplated. Costs become misleading when a group books every expense to one entity and later tries to infer legal responsibility from the ledger. Verify current official charges immediately before action and retain receipts with the relevant filing record.
A final payment review should compare the filing plan to the cost ledger so no dependent or new-office step is omitted. Do not infer a government fee from an internal corporate allocation.