The qualifying capital is separate from everything else and must not be reduced by fees paid out of it. Government filing charges are published in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, and beyond them sit regional centre administrative fees, legal fees for the petition and the source of funds work, valuations and translations.
The qualifying amount is a floor, not a budget
Treat the investment figure as untouchable and build the cost of the process on top of it. Where a regional centre is used, its administrative fee is charged in addition to the capital and is generally not refundable in the way the investment may be; ask precisely what it covers and what happens to it if the petition is denied. Legal costs are driven mostly by the source and path work, which for a business sale spanning years of records is substantial, and by any request for evidence that follows.
Add accounting fees for reconstructing the practices' history, a valuation if one is needed to support the goodwill allocation, certified translations where documents are not in English, and the family's own filing and medical costs at the immigrant visa or adjustment stage. Finally, budget for the second stage: removing conditions two years later is its own filing with its own fee and its own evidence.
- USCIS: EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
- 8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5), employment creation immigrants and capital adjustment provisions
- USCIS: Form I-829, Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status
- USCIS: Child Status Protection Act
- U.S. Department of State: Visa Bulletin
- USCIS: Form G-1055, Fee Schedule