Identify the actual principal and each eligible family member.
Use a person-by-person account
A combined total may omit or misclassify charges. Funding does not itself establish each person’s eligibility or official process stage.
The official program description sets out a sequence: submit an application and processing fee, undergo vetting, make the gift, and if found eligible receive permanent residence through an employment-based category. A joining spouse is assessed as part of the same initial application and must independently satisfy admissibility and eligibility for lawful permanent residence; the principal's approval does not cover a spouse who is inadmissible. Confirm which underlying classification applies and identify any unresolved eligibility question, such as an admissibility issue, before assuming a financial commitment resolves it. The gift is one million United States dollars where an individual proceeds on their own account and two million where a corporate sponsor makes it on behalf of an employee, and the processing fee is charged per person and is not returnable. The payment runs from the applicant to the U.S. government and buys neither a classification nor relief from any ground of inadmissibility, so each named person's own record still has to bear examination and one person's difficulty can affect the household's plan.