Government fees are set out in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, and include the I-526 petition fee, later the adjustment or immigrant-visa fees for each family member, and the I-829 fee; the EB-5 Integrity Fund fee applies to regional-centre investors rather than direct investors. Professional, business-plan, accounting and translation costs are separate, and none of them count toward the qualifying capital.
Keep fees and capital in separate ledgers
The qualifying investment must be capital contributed to the new commercial enterprise, so legal fees, filing fees, the business-plan writer and the accountant preparing the source-of-funds report cannot be folded into the US$1,050,000 or US$800,000. Budget them separately and pay them from a separate account, so the bank trail for the capital is not muddied by professional payments. Government charges should be read from the current G-1055 schedule for each form and each family member; there are also immigrant-visa or adjustment fees, medical examination costs and, at the end, the I-829 fee.
A direct investor bears the shop's real costs as well: equipment, a lease, insurance, and a payroll that must reach ten full-time positions, which is a larger ongoing commitment than the headline figure suggests. Treat the EB-5 minimum as the floor of a business budget, not as its total.