No. Preparing training materials and running the programme are business expenses. They may also produce useful assignment evidence, but spending on a curriculum does not establish the trainer’s specialised knowledge.
Separate training delivery and filing
Budget document selection, translations, legal preparation, government charges, applicable supplements, optional premium processing and any dependent work as the immigration portion. Avoid creating expensive materials solely to make a routine orientation look specialised. The strongest preparation explains a real teaching need and the employee’s existing capability using records that accurately reflect the planned programme.
Budgets written at preparation rarely match what a changed assignment actually consumes. A postponed start, a redrafted curriculum, a new worksite or an amended petition each generate professional work the original estimate never contemplated, and government charges follow the schedule current when a filing is made rather than when it was quoted. Have the engagement terms state how revisions are priced, so a change becomes a known cost instead of an argument.
Hypothetical example: a live-event production company reschedules its training block around a client’s calendar and asks counsel to revisit the assignment description more than once; the additional review was entirely foreseeable, yet nobody had agreed in advance who would pay for it. Settle that question while the relationship is still comfortable.