The published framework describes a corporate-sponsored route alongside the individual one, with a principal gift of US$2 million per corporate-sponsored employee rather than US$1 million for an individual. Terms and amounts must be re-verified on the official page before any payment.
Corporate sponsorship is a different framework, not a payment method
Treating the corporate route as simply the company writing the cheque misreads what is published. The amounts differ, with US$2 million per corporate-sponsored employee against US$1 million for an individual, and the corporate terms carry continuing obligations that the individual route does not: a one percent annual maintenance charge and a five percent transfer fee that includes a new DHS background check. Reuse of a prior corporate principal gift for a replacement employee is not automatic approval of that replacement.
In both routes there is a nonrefundable US$15,000 DHS processing fee per person, and successful applicants proceed through EB-1 or EB-2 subject to category eligibility, admissibility and visa availability. Because Lars owns the company, the choice is partly a tax and corporate question as well, and his accountant should be in the conversation alongside a licensed U.S. immigration attorney.