Relevant corporate records may reduce repeated collection, but the current facts and applicant still require review. Agree on what can be reused accurately and what needs new work.
Price the actual preparation tasks
Separate personal employment evidence, updated organizational records and current government charges. A lower document cost does not mean the predecessor’s approval covers the new person.
Government fees are published and can be checked against the current USCIS fee schedule. Keep the actual business budgets and official immigration charges distinct. Because the filing date matters here, premium processing may be worth its price if the firm delays filing to complete the year and then needs a quick decision before the engagement starts.
Distinguish proposing, approving and recording expenditure, and identify who performs operational tasks. Explain who performs the tasks, the available resources and the applicant’s responsibilities. Ask whether the earlier approval involved the same kind of filing, since an extension, a change of status and a new petition can call for different evidence even when the underlying facts overlap heavily. Confirm that any previously prepared exhibits still describe the current position accurately before reusing them, because a title, a reporting line or a set of duties can shift enough between filings to make older material misleading rather than merely incomplete. Request a short comparison of what changed since the last filing and what stayed the same, and price only the work needed to close that gap. Treat reused material as a starting draft to verify, not a finished answer to copy.