Ask for review of the role change, prior petition history, available stay and the appropriate filing, along with current government charges. A promotion may require more than editing a title in an existing package.
Separate employer decisions from immigration work
Compensation changes and staffing costs are company expenses. Petition preparation, any amendment or extension, dependent procedures and optional premium processing are immigration cost categories. The exact government total depends on the filing facts; verify it at preparation.
If the proposed benefit is more time beyond the L-1B limit, ensure the quote includes analysis of the specific managerial-employment timing rule. The budgeting failure is scoping the work as an edit. A promotion changes the case rather than the wording, and a quote priced as an amendment to an existing package will not cover analysis of the available time, the prior petition history and the applicable managerial-employment timing rule.
The earliest signal is an estimate that does not mention the status clock at all. Ask for the scope to name each of those items explicitly. Keep compensation changes and staffing costs in the company budget, and petition preparation, any amendment or extension, dependent procedures and optional premium processing in the immigration budget.
Verify the government total at preparation, since it depends on the filing facts rather than on the promotion.