No. The difference between US$1,050,000 and US$800,000 as reviewed on 7 September 2026 is the capital figure alone. Administrative charges set by the sponsor, government filing fees, legal work, translations, medical examinations and family processing sit outside it and generally do not fall with the qualifying category.
Price the downside as well as the entry
Ask what the sponsor charges on subscription, annually, and at exit, and whether those amounts are payable regardless of project performance. Then ask what happens financially if the investor withdraws after diligence but before filing. Separately, confirm current government fees close to the filing date rather than budgeting from an older schedule.
The purpose is a household picture in which the capital is treated as exposed and the fees as spent. Ask one question that reframes the whole comparison: what does the investor receive in exchange for each charge, and who owes them a duty in respect of it. A charge paid to a sponsor buys participation in a project the sponsor controls; a fee paid to an independent adviser buys a view the sponsor did not write.
Where the same party is arranging the investment and explaining its merits, the investor is paying twice for a single perspective. Hypothetical example: an investor reviewing a wastewater treatment project finds the qualifying analysis, the economic study and the introduction all originate with parties connected to the sponsor, and commissions one independent view whose cost is trivial beside the sum being committed.