No. Continuing operations and the applicant’s qualifying U.S. duties are distinct conditions. Explain both accurately.
Separate budgets by their actual purpose
A replacement-hiring forecast may support continuity but does not itself establish managerial capacity in the United States or required permission.
Ask an accountant or corporate records specialist to estimate the work needed to produce clear ownership and payroll documentation if it does not already exist in an organized form, and treat that as a distinct cost from the immigration filing itself. Divide the budget into eligibility review, corporate and employment evidence, government submissions, optional services, and household steps; for a new office, maintain a separate operating-capital ledger. Verify continuing foreign business and either U.S. business or compliance with the initial new-office requirements, and budget separately for filing, legal, relocation, and staffing items without treating expenditure as eligibility. Retrieving corporate records, obtaining certified copies from a registrar, translating foreign-language documents, reconstructing payroll history for the qualifying year abroad — each is priced by the hour or by the document, and each is worth scoping before it is commissioned.