No. Operating capital serves the business, while government charges and professional preparation relate to the procedure. Clarify them separately.
Avoid a misleading all-inclusive investment figure
Identify current official fees and the actual scope of preparation. Lease payments, salaries and business expenses do not purchase approval, and a consultant’s quotation does not establish a mandatory L-1A capital minimum.
The government side is the Form I-129 filing fee, the fraud-prevention fee, any asylum-program fee and optional premium processing, all listed on the USCIS fee schedule. Government fees for an L-1 petition are set by USCIS and published on Form G-1055; the employer pays them and should not pass them to the transferee. Ask who inside the organization is responsible for recording operating capital and case-preparation costs in separate ledger lines, since mixing the two in the same bookkeeping entry can make it harder later to show the venture’s actual financial capacity when that capacity becomes relevant to future evidence. Confirm that ordinary business expenses are tracked the same way they would be tracked without any pending filing, so the organization’s books remain a reliable record rather than something shaped around the case. Request a short accounting policy describing which costs belong in which category, and apply it consistently going forward rather than sorting expenses only when a document is due. Ask how this separation will be reflected the next time financial records are reviewed, since consistency over time matters more than a one-time cleanup.