Government filing charges are set out in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, and apply to the investor petition, to the later petition to remove conditions and to the consular or adjustment stage. Beyond those sit project administrative fees, legal fees for a document-heavy source-of-funds file, translations and accounting work.
The capital is the visible number and not the only one
Project subscriptions frequently carry an administrative fee charged separately from the qualifying capital, and that fee does not count toward the investment requirement. Legal fees on this route are higher than on temporary categories because the source and path of funds file is genuinely large, and where the money comes through a succession there is often accounting work to reconstruct valuations and tax treatment. Certified translations of Quebec notarial and tax documents add up.
There may be costs associated with independent review of the project’s offering documents, which is money well spent given that the capital must remain at risk and can be lost commercially. Currency movement between the transfer date and the investment date is a real exposure on a sum of this size. And because the fee schedule changes periodically, only the published version should be relied on for the government amounts.