Each eligible joining spouse and each unmarried child under 21 adds US$15,000 in nonrefundable processing and US$1 million to the gift, including in corporate-sponsored cases. Terms must be re-verified on the official page before any money moves.
The family arithmetic is additive, not included
Households often assume that a principal applicant's payment covers the family, as it broadly does in some other routes. Here it does not. Each qualifying family member is counted separately at both the processing and the gift level, so a household of four reaches a figure very different from the headline number for an individual.
The under-21 limit also applies, which puts an ordinary age problem into an expensive setting: a child close to that birthday may not be eligible to join by the time the process reaches them. Because the framework directs successful applicants through EB-1 or EB-2, each family member's route is ultimately governed by those categories, including admissibility and visa availability. Cecile should price the household honestly at the outset rather than discovering the multiplier partway through.