Separate government filing charges from company document work, legal services and family steps. A new-office business budget is another category of expenditure; it should not be confused with application fees.
Define what the professional work includes
Ask whether the quote covers an eligibility assessment, petition preparation, any expedited-processing request and responses to later government questions. Identify document retrieval, translations and corporate work that may be outside that scope. Confirm current official charges for the employer’s particular filing rather than reusing an amount from a different company or past application.
For a transfer tied to an acquisition, the expensive part is proving the relationship: obtaining certified corporate records from two jurisdictions, having accountants produce financial statements for both entities, and paying counsel to write a petition that traces ownership cleanly. Reconstructing a clean ownership chain across a holding company and two operating builders can mean retrieving old share transfers, correcting registers that were never updated, obtaining certificates of good standing and having an accountant confirm the structure in writing. Direct the budget instead to places where evidence is genuinely missing: retrieving payroll history for the qualifying foreign year, obtaining certified corporate records establishing the relationship between the employers, having position descriptions written by the people who supervise the work.