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DELBURNE · GOLD CARD FIELD GUIDE

Should a private summary replace the official payment instructions?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Preserve and follow the actual instructions for the named case. A summary may omit the stage or person to which a payment relates.

Identify what the government has actually instructed

Keep nonrefundable processing separate from the gift after successful vetting. A document explaining the programme is not proof that an applicant has passed that stage or received approval.

The official process describes further USCIS instructions following the initial application, so the applicant should expect to produce the ordinary immigrant-petition evidence for whichever classification is assigned, plus whatever the program itself requests. Identity and civil documents for every intended applicant, a full immigration and travel history, records addressing any admissibility question, and a written confirmation of the current programme terms taken from official sources on that date. Each employee gets a folder opening with identity and civil documents, meaning passport, birth record, marriage or divorce records and any prior names, followed by the evidence supporting their underlying EB-1 or EB-2 classification, their vetting correspondence, and their own payment receipts. Order the slowest civil documents first, since they depend on nobody's decision; leave the medical to the timing the instructions specify, because validity periods can lapse; hold irreversible household decisions until a visa is actually issued.