No. They fund business activity, although evidence of them may be relevant to the role.
Keep business and filing budgets distinct
Record service-provider charges, government fees and professional scope separately. A high outsourcing budget does not purchase a qualifying managerial classification.
The base filing structure follows the standard USCIS fee schedule; additional cost usually comes from the extra evidence-gathering the continuity issue requires, not from a separate government charge. Divide the forecast into petition preparation, official charges verified from current instructions, dependent arrangements, relocation, and ordinary business travel. 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 larger costs are preparatory: assembling corporate evidence, accountants producing financial statements for both entities, legal work on the petition, and the possibility of responding to a request for evidence. Where the U.S. business is a new office, approval begins with a one-year limit and the plan must show sufficient premises, financial ability to remunerate the beneficiary and commence doing business, and capacity to support the managerial or executive role within one year.