No. A private service contract and the official payment terms are separate. The published US$15,000 processing charge is nonrefundable.
Read each obligation under its own terms
Confirm the actual professional agreement without assuming its refund language returns government money. Keep the later gift, family additions and possible other official charges distinct; this page guarantees no refund from any party. Hypothetical example: a geochemical laboratory owner reads a refund clause promising a return of unused fees within thirty days and takes it as covering everything paid.
Read it again asking what the adviser can actually give back. An adviser can refund its own unearned fees on the terms of its own contract; it cannot return an amount already paid under the official process, and the published US$15,000 processing charge is nonrefundable. Ask for the refund terms to be stated in the engagement letter with the trigger, the calculation and the timeframe, and ask what counts as work already performed.
Ask separately what happens if the applicant withdraws, if a request for further evidence arrives, or if the household composition changes mid-process. Keep the professional fee, the processing charge, the later gift and any family additions on four separate lines of the household's own budget, so that no refund conversation can blur them. Record which of those four lines the household could still fund if one asset were unavailable, because that answer, rather than the total, decides whether the plan survives a delay.