A regional centre administrative fee, legal fees for a document-heavy petition, translations and document retrieval, government charges at each stage taken from the current schedule, and the later filing to remove conditions. Refiling after a project's material change is an additional cost that families rarely budget for.
Budget for the second filing and the possible third
Three cost layers exist and only the first is usually planned. The first layer is the investment itself, which is capital at risk rather than a fee. The second is the cost of getting the petition filed: the project's administrative charge, legal work on the source of funds, accounting, translations, and the government charge for the petition, all confirmed against the current published schedule.
The third layer is what comes later, and it is the one that surprises people: immigrant visa or adjustment charges for each family member, and then the petition to remove conditions two years after residence begins, which is a full evidentiary filing of its own. Where a project makes a material change while a petition is pending, a refiling may be required, and that is effectively paying for the second layer twice. Families weighing projects should ask what has happened to previous investors in the same programme.