Under the official FAQ checked September 7, 2026: US$15,000 processing per person and a US$1,000,000 gift per person after vetting, so US$4,060,000 for four people, plus consular, medical and immigrant fees. Verify before paying.
Add four fees, four gifts and the visa-stage charges
The published figures are a US$15,000 nonrefundable processing fee for each applicant and a US$1,000,000 gift to the U.S. government for each principal and each joining spouse or unmarried child under 21, payable after successful vetting. For a principal, a spouse and two children the arithmetic is US$60,000 in processing fees and US$4,000,000 in gifts. Those amounts go to the government and are not investments; nothing is returned if the family later leaves the United States. On top of them come the immigrant-visa application fees, medical examinations, the USCIS immigrant fee for the green card and any professional fees, translations and travel. The corporate figures, a US$2,000,000 gift per sponsored employee with maintenance and transfer charges, do not apply to an individual applicant. Because these numbers come from an executive program, they should be re-verified on the official page immediately before funds are moved.
Separate the program payment from professional advice, document collection, travel, and any unrelated business expenditure. The defining payment is made by the applicant to the U.S. government after the applicable process; it is not a recoverable enterprise investment and should not be compared to EB-5 capital as if it could generate a return. Hypothetical example: a commercial photographer plans to sell a rental property to fund a Gold Card application. She should budget taxes and transaction costs separately, then verify the applicant-paid gift amount from the current official materials before committing the sale proceeds.