It is a separate business or professional-development expense. Its relevance to the case does not transform it into a government charge.
Budget for the actual knowledge gap
Clarify who pays for training and whether the proposed duties can be performed as described. Purchasing a course is not a guarantee of L-1B eligibility.
Identify which company records and explanatory work the specific claim actually requires, and keep that preparation separate from government filing fees, any optional processing request, and family filings. Identify costs for entity documents, foreign employment records, technical document preparation, translations, government fees, travel, and any professional review. Filing fees published in the USCIS fee schedule, professional fees reflecting the evidence work, and internal quality and operations time to extract and organize the records that support the knowledge claim. Company training, relocation assistance, software licensing, government charges, legal services, travel, and household reserves are not interchangeable evidence. Budget the shared and individual portions separately, since the corporate evidence is prepared once while interviews, evidence gathering, and drafting a distinct knowledge account do not compress with numbers. Government charges should be taken from the current G-1055 schedule, including the base petition fee, the fraud-prevention fee and any other statutory fee that applies to the company's size; premium processing is available at an additional charge.