Separate government filing charges from company document preparation, legal services and any family-related applications. If the transfer involves a new office, the business's own operating budget is a distinct category from immigration fees.
Confirm what the professional engagement actually includes
Ask whether a quoted fee covers the eligibility assessment, petition preparation, any expedited-processing request, and responses to later government inquiries, or only part of that work. Identify document retrieval and translation costs that may sit outside the quoted scope. Confirm current official filing charges for this employer and petition rather than reusing an amount from an unrelated case.
Separate petition charges and counsel work from relocation, taxation, and family expenses, then confirm which party will pay each amount. The first review should also flag whether the proposed filing needs a faster decision and whether the employer understands the supporting-record effort. Hypothetical example: a Québec food-distribution group offers a U.S.
branch role to its finance director and agrees verbally to cover ‘the transfer.’ The director later learns that moving costs and cross-border tax filings are excluded. A written relocation agreement settles the business commitment, while the petition budget should remain limited to costs that support the immigration filing.