A budget may support actual operations but does not establish the primary duties by itself.
Connect resources to the proposal
Do not attribute every group resource to the U.S. operation without a genuine basis.
The expense easiest to overlook is the one the petition itself depends on: an executive role only exists if other people are doing the operational work, and hiring those people costs wages before the U.S. operation produces revenue. Keep filing fees, translation, and professional-preparation costs in a separate ledger from any commercial spending ceiling; neither figure is an investment threshold or a substitute for primarily managerial or executive duties. Where the U.S. business is a new office, approval begins with a one-year limit and the plan must show sufficient premises, financial ability to remunerate the beneficiary and commence doing business, and capacity to support the managerial or executive role within one year. Employers planning a transfer around an employee whose record includes a gap should budget the additional preparation time as the real cost driver, rather than expecting a separate line-item government fee for the continuity issue itself.