Include the published processing and continuing programme charges relevant to the actual arrangement.
Read the whole corporate payment structure
The principal gift is US$2 million per employee after successful vetting when instructed, with US$15,000 nonrefundable processing per person. Published corporate terms also include 1% annual maintenance and 5% transfer fees. Verify the applicable instructions and any additional charges instead of assuming the gift is the entire lifetime cost.
Build the budget by person, stage, and type of payment. At the online-application stage, record DHS’s nonrefundable processing fee of US$15,000, the later USCIS prompt for Form I-140G, and the gift only when requested after vetting. The official individual gift is US$1 million; for an employee sponsored under the corporate terms discussed here, preserve the separate US$2 million principal amount already identified, along with any currently published maintenance or transfer charges. Add professional, document, travel, tax-advice, and currency-transfer expenses without mislabelling them as program payments. The Gold Card framework proceeds through EB-1 or EB-2 classification and is not EB-5, so the gift creates neither project equity nor a return expectation. Before approving a transfer, re-verify official instructions and beneficiary details. Budgeting only the headline gift misses both sequence and per-person exposure.
Hypothetical example: A forestry-analytics employer around Ferland-et-Boilleau models sponsorship for one senior researcher. Its finance team uses separate approval gates for processing, the instructed corporate gift, annual programme costs, and professional expenses, and does not send the principal amount while individual vetting remains incomplete.