No. Training expenditure does not itself establish the individual’s knowledge or qualifying assignment. The content and actual experience matter.
Explain what was learned and applied
Keep training expenses separate from government charges and professional preparation. Identify the real knowledge used in the U.S. role. A costly course or project budget is not a substitute for the statutory standard or the foreign employment requirement.
Legal fees rise with the complexity of the knowledge narrative, so an employer saves money by preparing the internal document index, training records and organization charts before counsel starts. The immigration budget itself covers the Form I-129 fee, any asylum program fee based on the petitioner's size, the fraud-prevention fee applicable to L petitions and optional premium processing, all set out in the USCIS fee schedule. For an L-1B worker placed primarily at an unaffiliated worksite, the unaffiliated employer cannot principally control and supervise the worker, and the placement cannot be essentially an arrangement to provide labour for hire rather than to use the petitioner’s specialized knowledge. The substantial costs are internal: producing and organizing the proprietary documentation that proves specialized knowledge, reviewing the customer contract, and counsel's time responding to a request for evidence, which this classification attracts more often than others.