The Form I-526 filing fee, immigrant-visa or adjustment fees for each family member, the later I-829 fee, and professional, appraisal, translation and loan costs, none of which count as investment capital.
Program fees and financing costs sit outside the capital
The investment itself must reach the applicable threshold in full; fees do not count toward it. USCIS charges a filing fee for the standalone investor petition, published on Form G-1055, and each family member later pays immigrant-visa fees at the consulate or adjustment fees in the United States, plus the immigrant fee for the green card. The I-829 petition to remove conditions carries its own fee two years later.
Because she is not investing through a regional center, the integrity-fund fee that applies to regional-center investors does not arise, but the direct route has other costs: an appraisal and legal fees for the mortgage, interest on the loan for the years the capital is at risk, accountancy for the source-of-funds package, translations of French records, and the working capital the company needs beyond the invested amount. These should be budgeted from funds separate from the sum wired to the enterprise. Hypothetical example: a furniture-restoration studio budgets the investment amount but omits legal fees, filing fees, and the cash needed to keep staff paid before revenue stabilizes.
Those omissions do not reduce the capital requirement. The first review should separate qualifying capital from professional and operating expenses, then test whether the enterprise still has enough working cash. A funding plan that exhausts every dollar at closing can make the job-creation plan less credible.