Not necessarily. Determine who actually pays the government and professional charges under the case arrangements.
Separate accounting from obligations
An intercompany project charge may fund business work without paying immigration costs. Obtain a clear scope and payer agreement instead of inferring it from internal allocations.
Government charges for an L-1B petition, including any premium-processing request, are set out in the USCIS fee schedule and are the same whether the transferee works at the affiliate's shop or on a state trail corridor. The government charges for an individual petition are set out on Form G-1055: the Form I-129 fee, the fraud-prevention and, where applicable, other surcharges, and premium processing if the parent wants a decision within the published window. Track vendor quotes, record retrieval, translations, secure copying, courier costs, official filing charges, and any premium-processing decision independently. The expense companies waste is buying a purchased expert declaration before doing the internal work; an examiner gives far more weight to commit history and design documents than to a letter from someone who has never seen the system. Confirm whether a quoted review covers technical material, since specialized documents often sit outside a standard scope and reappear as a separate invoice. The real costs are extraction and clearance of records from a controlled system and the quality lead's time in explaining internal practice; drafting is a smaller share than most people expect.