Does the employer’s reimbursement automatically cover my spouse and children?

Only the actual private agreement establishes what the employer promises to fund. Government family charges and individual eligibility remain separate.

Name the covered people

Each eligible joining spouse or unmarried child under 21 adds a US$1 million gift and US$15,000 fee. Initial family inclusion is recommended; do not assume later addition is automatically prohibited, approved or free. These government family charges also apply to corporate cases. For immigrant-visa travel, derivatives enter with or after the principal; neither payment nor petition approval alone grants residence or work permission.

Read the employer agreement. A spouse or unmarried child under 21 who will accompany the Gold Card principal should be included in the initial application, and each is subject to a separate US$15,000 DHS processing fee and US$1 million gift; inclusion does not force an employer to reimburse those charges. List every relative’s identity and relationship, plus expenses the employer promises to cover. For each included person, the order starts with the online application and a US$15,000 nonrefundable DHS processing fee; after that payment settles USCIS prompts Form I-140G, then vetting occurs, and upon successful vetting the government requests that person’s US$1 million gift to the United States. The programme currently runs through EB-1 or EB-2 classification, not EB-5; the executive order only directs officials to consider a possible future expansion involving EB-5. Re-check directions before sending funds.

Hypothetical example: A Russell precision-components finance director has a spouse and two teenagers, while the benefit names only the employee. The family should not read “dependants eligible” in a guide as a promise to fund the family. They should obtain a coverage schedule and calculate obligations separately. Family inclusion does not itself grant residence or work authorization, and a reimbursement promise cannot waive admissibility, documentation, or visa-availability requirements.