Government fees follow the USCIS fee schedule for Form I-129 and its associated fees, plus premium processing if chosen. Do not pay for an outside expert opinion before the company's own design records have been assembled; those records are stronger evidence and already exist.
Spend on structure, not on opinions
The petition's cost has predictable parts. Government fees are published on the fee schedule and include the base I-129 fee, the fraud prevention and detection fee, an asylum program fee that depends on employer size, and optional premium processing. Professional fees cover the specialized-knowledge analysis, the support letter and the corporate evidence.
The expense companies waste is buying a purchased expert declaration before doing the internal work; an examiner gives far more weight to commit history and design documents than to a letter from someone who has never seen the system. Money is better spent on rewriting the dealer agreement so that control stays with the subsidiary, because a placement that fails the labour-for-hire test cannot be rescued by any amount of evidence about her knowledge. Relocation, temporary housing near the dealer and the spouse's certification costs are separate budget lines, and a fallback of remote support from Canada costs nothing in immigration fees at all.