Often yes, particularly for legal and accounting work needed to reconstruct historical ownership and transaction records across multiple family members or generations.
Budget for historical reconstruction as its own item
Ask a professional experienced in this kind of documentation to estimate the work involved before committing to an overall EB-5 preparation budget.
Request an itemized breakdown of administrative fees, legal costs, and the capital contribution from the actual subscription agreement, and confirm current government filing fees separately rather than relying solely on a promoter's cost summary. Government fees for the investor petition, the immigrant visa or adjustment stage and the later removal-of-conditions petition, all in the USCIS fee schedule, plus professional fees for source-of-funds work, project due diligence and Canadian tax advice on the corporate payout. Reconcile administrative amounts to the subscription or operating agreement and keep legal, filing, translation, and family expenses outside the capital total unless a defensible rule and the effective terms establish otherwise. Investors regularly underestimate the second bucket, particularly where the source-of-funds work is complex, and they occasionally forget the third stage entirely because it arrives two years after everyone stopped thinking about the file.
- USCIS — EB-5 investor program
- USCIS — business and investment visa overview
- USCIS — Child Status Protection Act
- Department of State — Visa Bulletin
- USCIS — fee schedule
- 8 USC 1153 — current investor capital and restrictions
- 8 CFR 204.6 — employment definitions and participation; capital amounts superseded by statute