Government filing fees per the published USCIS schedule, plus project administrative fees where a regional centre is used, professional fees for source-of-funds work, and translation.
Fees that are not the investment
The qualifying capital is the headline figure, but it is not the total outlay. Where a regional centre project is used, there is normally an administrative fee that is separate from the invested capital and generally not returned. Government filing fees apply at several stages and should be checked against the published USCIS fee schedule rather than remembered from an article. Professional fees for assembling and presenting source-of-funds evidence are frequently the largest advisory cost, particularly where capital comes from asset sales with long histories, and translation of French-language records adds to that. Ask, in writing, which amounts are at risk in the enterprise and which are fees consumed regardless of outcome, because that distinction is not always obvious in offering documents.
Hypothetical example: a cold-storage operator sees a project fee quote and assumes it covers the entire EB-5 commitment. Separate the qualifying capital, administrative or legal charges, financial-record retrieval, translations, tax advice and reserve planning. The first review should identify what money must enter the enterprise, what does not count as investment capital, and who is paid for each service. Decide whether the commercial risk, source-document work and conditional-residence obligations fit the family's resources before transferring funds. A fee schedule is not proof that an investor has met the investment and job-creation requirements.