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ELNORA · L-1B FIELD GUIDE

Does the team’s training budget prove how much knowledge this employee acquired?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. The actual individual experience matters. Aggregate spending cannot establish the applicant’s knowledge or qualifying foreign employment.

Connect preparation to real evidence

Identify the person’s relevant training and application of knowledge. Keep commercial team costs separate from government and professional charges. A large budget does not cure a prohibited placement.

Beyond the Form I-129 filing fee and any associated fees at the amounts in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, the real expenditure is internal time spent extracting training records, version histories and approval trails, plus professional fees for preparing a statement that survives scrutiny. Someone has to identify the proprietary process precisely, retrieve training and validation records that may be on a shared drive nobody has curated, and describe technical material in language a non-specialist reviewer can follow. Ask counsel which of the four elements the quoted assessment actually covers, because the corporate analysis, the chronology, the knowledge claim and any offsite placement question are separable pieces of work and a fee quoted for the case may assume the simplest version of each.