No. The processing fee is nonrefundable and the payment that follows vetting is described as a gift made by the applicant to the U.S. government. It buys no asset, earns no return and is not repaid, which distinguishes it fundamentally from a capital investment in a business.
A gift is not capital, and calling it capital misleads everyone
The distinction matters for more than accuracy. An investor evaluating a business acquisition weighs risk against a possible return and can, in principle, sell what was bought. Someone contemplating this framework is weighing a payment that produces no asset at all.
The comparison people reach for is the employment-creation immigrant category, and it is the wrong comparison in every respect: that category requires capital placed at risk in an enterprise, the creation of at least ten qualifying jobs, and evidence of the lawful source and path of the funds, and the money remains the investor's capital throughout. Conflating the two leads to budgeting errors and, worse, to a family believing it retains an asset it does not have. Ferruccio should record in his own planning that this money is spent, not deployed.