A training purchase is not a guarantee of specialized knowledge or transfer eligibility. Review what the employee actually knows before making a new spending commitment.
Separate business training from evidence
Record completed courses, supervised projects and actual application of the claimed knowledge. A prospective course may serve a business purpose, but do not present it as past experience or assume its certificate will establish the statutory standard. Government and professional fees are separate from that training budget.
Beyond the Form I-129 filing fee and any associated fees at the amounts in the USCIS fee schedule, Form G-1055, the real expenditure is internal time spent extracting training records, version histories and approval trails, plus professional fees for preparing a statement that survives scrutiny. The Form I-129 fee, the fraud-prevention fee and any applicable asylum program fee at the published amounts, optional premium processing, translations and evidence preparation, then U.S. payroll and relocation, which are business costs rather than immigration fees. The practical cost difference in a case like this comes from the extra work of pulling together the company's internal welding procedure specifications, documenting the specialist's specific role in developing them, and writing a narrative that clearly distinguishes company-specific knowledge from industry-wide certification.