Pooled offerings commonly carry an administrative or subscription fee separate from the capital, and some structures add annual monitoring or fund management charges. Government filing fees, legal work, translations, medical examinations and consular processing for each family member are further items. Ask for every charge in writing, including who receives it.
Ask what the fee buys and when
Find out whether an administrative fee is refundable if the petition is denied or the investor withdraws before deployment, and whether the fee covers legal representation or is entirely separate from it. Confirm whether the fund charges an ongoing amount and how it is deducted. Then confirm current government fees near the filing date rather than relying on an older schedule, and treat the required capital as spent, not as a deposit.
Add one further question about who is paid by whom. Where the person introducing the offering, the person explaining its merits, and the person preparing the petition are connected, the investor is buying a single perspective several times over, and the fee schedule will not make that visible. Ask each professional, directly and in writing, who instructs them and who pays them, and commission at least one view from someone with no relationship to the sponsor.
Hypothetical example: an investor reviewing a pooled offering finds the introduction, the economic analysis and the recommended counsel all trace to parties connected with the sponsor, and the independent view subsequently obtained costs a small fraction of the sum being committed while changing what is asked for in negotiation.