No. The processing charge precedes further review and does not establish category eligibility, admissibility, visa availability or an approved immigration status.
Keep the decision open to the actual findings
Use current official information about the applicable EB-1 or EB-2 basis and program stages. The official fee is described as nonrefundable, so an applicant should understand its purpose before payment. A desire to continue, a wealth estimate or a private assurance is not the eligibility determination. If circumstances have changed, identify them accurately before deciding the next procedural step.
The first review should produce an eligibility matrix stating each claimed fact, the controlling record, the person who can confirm it and any contrary fact. It distinguishes a missing document from a business fact that must change or a category mismatch that wording cannot repair.
Hypothetical example: A cranial-implant design entrepreneur is asked to proceed when a key fact appears only in a job title. The applicant must decide whether primary records establish the actual criterion before relying on the description.
For an individual application, the applicant makes the government gift; under the corporate route, the sponsor makes the corporate gift. Neither payment is a commercial investment or a visa classification of its own.