Government charges are listed in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, and premium processing is optional. The larger costs are preparatory: assembling corporate evidence, accountants producing financial statements for both entities, legal work on the petition, and the possibility of responding to a request for evidence.
Budget for the evidence, and for one round of questions
The fee schedule is the only reliable source for the amounts payable, since they are revised periodically and any figure repeated elsewhere ages badly. What surrounds those amounts is more significant for a business of this size. Corporate evidence usually has to be created rather than retrieved: organizational charts drawn for the first time, financial statements prepared to a standard the file can rely on, payroll histories extracted for a defined period, and a duties description written with care.
Where the acquisition is recent, the closing documents may need review before they are usable as proof of the relationship. It is prudent to assume one request for evidence on managerial capacity, because that is the point these petitions are most often tested, and to price the time required to answer it properly rather than hurriedly. Deciding at the outset who inside the business owns this file also matters, because these petitions stall when the evidence depends on somebody whose actual job is running a marina in July.
- USCIS: L-1A Intracompany Transferee Executive or Manager
- USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 2 Part L, Intracompany Transferees
- eCFR: 8 CFR 214.2(l), Intracompany transferees
- Department of State: 9 FAM 402.12, Intracompany transferees
- USCIS: employment authorization for certain spouses, Policy Manual Volume 10 Part B Chapter 2