First identify the actual assignment, existing knowledge and unresolved gaps. Training decisions are business decisions; paying for a course does not establish L-1B eligibility.
Budget evidence work and training separately
Ask what professional assessment and document preparation are included in the estimate, separately from official charges. Avoid presenting planned training expenditure as evidence that the applicant already possesses the required knowledge.
The government fees are listed in the USCIS fee schedule and are paid by the petitioning employer. Separate the business decision to invest in an employee's future development from the evidentiary question the filing actually needs answered, since funding forward-looking training addresses where the employee is headed rather than what the employee currently understands. Ask the adviser specifically what evidence is missing today, before any training is planned, so a training decision gets made on its own business merits rather than as a stand-in for evidence that does not yet exist. Where training is genuinely useful for the business regardless of the filing, keep its cost on the operational budget rather than the evidence budget. Confirm which official charges the petitioning employer is responsible for so that figure is never confused with the separate cost of any planned course. Ask what specific record already exists today that shows the employee applying this knowledge in practice, since that kind of existing proof is usually less costly to gather than arranging any new instruction.