Beyond the capital itself, expect legal fees for the immigration filings, accounting or forensic work to assemble the source-of-funds record, translation of foreign documents, and the enterprise's own transaction and formation costs. Government filing fees should be read from the current USCIS fee schedule.
The tracing work is the unpredictable line
Where funds come from a single clean domestic source, the documentation work is contained. Where they come from several sources across more than one country, including a gift with its own history, the tracing can become the largest professional cost in the file. Ask for a scope that identifies the sources known today and prices them, with an agreed approach for anything discovered later. Translation and notarization of foreign documents add up quietly and are easy to omit from a budget. Keep the capital itself entirely separate from these costs in your planning, since money spent on professional fees is not money invested in the enterprise and cannot be counted as though it were.
Hypothetical example: Pavel, a grain-drying equipment dealer, focuses on the capital amount without budgeting for source-document reconstruction. His worksheet should separate the current statutory investment threshold from project administration, securities review, immigration work, translations, government fees and the later I-829 evidence burden. Only qualifying capital placed at risk counts toward the investment; paying professional or promoter charges does not purchase eligibility or create jobs. He should price the retrieval of old tax, sale and banking records before transferring funds, because a lawful-source gap can defeat an otherwise funded case. Thresholds and filing charges must be rechecked on current official USCIS materials rather than copied from an offering brochure.