Commercial value does not establish the knowledge standard or satisfy the offsite restrictions.
Describe the substance of the service
Identify the actual expertise and control arrangement. Fees paid for the project should not be treated as government charges or a guarantee that the transfer qualifies.
Mostly time and legal drafting: reviewing the state contract for control language, obtaining a placement letter from the affiliate, and possibly amending contract terms. Document gathering, the drafting of a knowledge description that stands up to scrutiny, and any legal analysis of a complicated group structure or an offsite placement. Split the budget into platform licences, ordinary business deployment, petition expenses, and evidence preparation; none measures specialized knowledge by price. Budget the immigration filing separately from evidence needed to explain specialized knowledge, corporate relationship, placement terms and, if relevant, a new-office financial plan. Decide which records would prove that knowledge even if the article disappeared: internal training, uncommon assignments, implementation history, and comparisons with ordinary staff may be more probative. Add the affiliate's own set-up expenses where relevant, and add the cost of doing it twice if a request for evidence arrives because the first submission described a skilled employee rather than a specialized-knowledge position. A substantial internal budget cannot turn future learning into present capability or prove that the expanded assignment is covered by the current immigration arrangement.