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APPLICATION ANSWERS · GOLD CARD FIELD GUIDE

Does a corporate payment establish every family member’s eligibility?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Review official family terms and individual circumstances. Current official terms add a US$15,000 processing fee and US$1,000,000 gift for each eligible joining spouse or unmarried child under 21, including corporate cases; confirm individual eligibility and the operative instructions.

Separate funding from inclusion

Relationships, ages and intended applicants need review. A payer arrangement does not guarantee the household’s immigration outcome.

The employment-based immigrant categories include a spouse and unmarried children under twenty-one as derivatives, and it is natural to expect the same pattern elsewhere, but that expectation is an assumption rather than a finding. Assemble the birth record, passport, custody or adoption material if relevant, proof of relationship, marital-status evidence and an individual age or CSPA analysis; a principal's payment receipt proves none of those facts. A notice naming only the principal says nothing about anyone else, and the family’s position is established by each person’s own documents: civil records proving the relationship, each child’s date of birth, and the material addressing admissibility. Where a child’s age is close to the limit, the individual assessment of any applicable statutory age-protection rules belongs at the start of the planning rather than at the point where a birthday has already passed.