The capital is US$1,050,000, or US$800,000 in a targeted employment area or infrastructure project, and should be verified against current official material. Around it sit filing amounts from the USCIS fee schedule, project administration charges, legal and accounting work on source of funds, and the later cost of the conditions-removal stage.
Price the whole sequence, not the entry ticket
Investors tend to budget the qualifying amount and treat everything else as incidental, which understates the exercise considerably. Regional centre or project offerings commonly carry an administrative charge separate from the capital, and it is usually not returned. Filing amounts are set out in the current USCIS schedule and change periodically.
Professional costs are driven largely by the source-of-funds work, which in this scenario spans a company, a donor and several years of records, and by the due diligence a sensible investor commissions on the project itself. Two later costs are easy to forget: the conditions-removal filing at the end of the two-year period, with the evidence it requires, and the possibility that capital is not returned at all, since it must remain at risk rather than being guaranteed. Anyone comparing offerings should also ask what happens to the administrative charge if a petition is withdrawn or refused, and should find the answer in the subscription documents rather than in conversation.