No. Training may support readiness for the role but does not create qualifying employment history.
Identify what each record supports
A course certificate and a completed foreign employment period prove different facts.
The spending sits in retrieval and analysis: obtaining archived payroll and pension records, translating foreign documents, and paying for counsel's review of a history with several possible readings. Published filing fees from the USCIS fee schedule, professional fees for the petition, and the internal cost of reconstructing an employment and travel history, which for someone who has moved between countries is the largest unplanned item. Recruitment advertising or interim wages abroad may show a genuine handover, yet they do not prove that the American operation has premises, personnel, capital, or work sufficient to support a primarily managerial or executive position. Identify salaries or service contracts for staff who will perform production, administration, sales, and customer support, then connect those resources to the transferee’s duty allocation. What money cannot buy is any of the four elements: the relationship between the entities, one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad inside the previous three years, duties that are primarily managerial or executive, and time remaining under the seven-year cap.