Only if the reduced amount genuinely applies to that investment, on a designation that is current. The standard qualifying capital is US$1,050,000, reduced to US$800,000 for a targeted employment area or a qualifying infrastructure project, and marketing language is not a designation.
Verify the basis for the lower tier before you budget it
Ask for the specific basis in writing: which designation is claimed, what evidence supports it, and whether it is current for the enterprise at the time of filing. Hypothetical example: a couple who sold a Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover business budget the lower amount for a development promoted as rural, only to find that the relevant area no longer supports the claim and the project has quietly moved to the standard figure, leaving a shortfall of a quarter of a million dollars they had allocated elsewhere. Two other budget lines deserve the same scrutiny.
Both qualifying amounts are subject to statutory adjustment beginning 1 January 2027, so a family whose filing may fall near that date should ask which figure will apply on the day and plan for the higher of the two. And the qualifying capital is not the whole cost: administrative fees charged by an offering, government filing fees on the current USCIS schedule, legal work on the source-of-funds record and translation all sit outside it and should be listed separately rather than absorbed into a round number.