Government charges are set out in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, and include the petition fee, applicable surcharges and optional premium processing. The unavoidable costs sit elsewhere: assembling corporate evidence, preparing an organizational record that survives scrutiny, and legal work on a filing that is document-heavy by nature.
The expensive part is building the record
Because the amounts published on the fee schedule change, only that schedule is worth relying on for figures. The predictable spending around it is more useful to plan. Corporate documents often have to be retrieved, translated and reconciled, particularly where a Quebec company has been reorganized over the years and the paper trail skipped a step.
Financial statements for both entities may need to be prepared or restated. A hiring plan and a description of the American operation take real management time to write properly. Where a request for further evidence arrives, responding to it costs more than getting the file right initially would have.
And if the plan depends on the transfer happening by a particular month, premium processing is not a luxury but a scheduling tool. The cost of a refusal is higher again, since a second petition answers for the first.