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SOOKE · GOLD CARD FIELD GUIDE

Does a correct three-person budget establish family eligibility?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Eligibility for the principal and each included family member must still be assessed.

Use the example only for its stated facts

The US$3.045 million total assumes an individual principal, one eligible spouse and one eligible child. Arithmetic does not decide relationships, age issues, admissibility or visa availability.

Do not treat the parent’s financial resources as proof of the child’s eligibility or assume that a private promise is a completed government step. The official framework treats the gift and fee as part of a process that still applies the existing employment-based immigrant criteria and admissibility rules. The program requires eligibility, admissibility and an available visa; a scope built around only paperwork assembly leaves the decisive questions to nobody. The post-vetting gift is evidence for the program's specified EB-1 or EB-2 basis, but the applicant must still be eligible for lawful permanent residence, admissible, and covered by an available visa number. Identify whether the invoice concerns the individual, family members, or a corporate sponsor, then reconcile every private service to the government stage. 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.