No. It requires the actual qualifying investment and the other investor conditions, with official and project costs considered separately.
Budget for the investment route being proposed
Current general capital amounts are US$1.05 million or US$800,000 for a qualifying reduced-threshold case, subject to statutory adjustments. Do not compare categories using filing fees alone or assume a paid petition buys immediate employment authorization.
Ask which payments are due at filing and which are staged, and read escrow release conditions so you know when funds leave your control. Separate the immigrant investor pathway from any nonimmigrant work-authorization question entirely, since the process leads toward conditional permanent residence through the investor petition and later I-829 sequence rather than toward a renewable status tied to continued employment. Ask counsel to map the full sequence in writing, including what status the investor and family hold while each stage is pending, rather than assuming a filed petition itself creates any interim work authorization. Confirm how a gap or change in an existing nonimmigrant status during that pending period would be handled, since the immigrant case proceeding on its own timeline does not automatically preserve an unrelated status. Treat a comparison against a different visa category on cost alone as incomplete, because the underlying legal pathways differ in kind, not only in price, and that difference should be understood before any budget decision is made.